Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt relied last week on as extraordinary a brace of diplomats as any U. S. President has ever had on a serious diplomatic battlefield. His favorite sentinel abroad is Ambassador to France Bill Bullitt: bald, slim, elegant, as close a student of all Europe as was that other rich Philadelphian, Dr. Benjamin Franklin. By placement more important now is autonomous Joe Kennedy in London: hearty, gum-chewing, tough-minded as Bismarck. Both have achieved in almost unprecedented measure the confidence of the Governments and the peoples to whom they are accredited. Neither France nor Great Britain has for years...
...along the Trans-Jordan border. They have courted Arab favor (over Italian-German incitement) with some success, rely on Turkey and her army of 1,500,000 to keep the Arabs in line and help hold the Suez as well as the Dardanelles. Last week the specially friendly, oil-rich Kingdom of Iraq bought 15 Douglas Northrop military ships, for October delivery...
...empire has for many months been the Chicago Herald & Examiner. Further devitalized by a Newspaper Guild strike, which cost it an estimated $30,000 a week in advertising revenue, the Herex was kept going for two reasons: 1) it accounted for 1,000,000 circulation of Hearst's rich American Weekly; 2) it was one of Chicago's two morning newspapers. Last week the bankers who manage the Hearst finances decided they could no longer carry the Herex. This week it merged with the evening American, leaving the No. 2 U. S. city with only one morning paper...
...college trustees, looking for "a young man" to succeed Dr. William Allan Neilson, who retires August 31, asked Mrs. Morrow to run the college ad interim. First woman to head Smith (although it was started in 1875 with money contributed by rich Spinster Sophia Smith), Mrs. Morrow was no illogical choice for the job. She is a Smith alumna ('96), mother of three Smith alumnae (Elisabeth '25; Anne '27; Constance '35), has been a Smith trustee since 1926, helped raise the college's endowment from $2,000,000 to $6,000,000 (to which...
...cotton marketing year on July 31 the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau set out to measure him. Last week they reported the 'awful facts. In spite of the reducing corset which AAA pays him to wear, he has battened on bountiful crops, gobbled the rich cream of New Deal crop loans and, deprived of the exercise of foreign trade, grown more ugly and obese...