Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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None of these activities, however, has made her rich, and Louis Howe left "less than $20,000." Last week President Roosevelt recompensed his most devoted and intimate friend's relict for virtual widowhood during her husband's later life by appointing her acting postmaster of Fall River, at $4,000 per year...
Head of this rich, state-protected bureaucracy since its inception has been a shambling, pugnacious, 6-ft. 4-in. Scot named John Charles Walsham Reith. Knighted in 1927, Sir John is monarch of all he surveys in Broadcasting House, the big white B. B. C. building which dominates Portland Place and, in the interests of acoustics, is sealed like a tomb and ventilated like a submarine. So obnoxious to many of B. B. C.'s 3,000 employes was the "Army" atmosphere of Broadcasting House (e. g., B. B. C.-ers were fired when they got divorced), that...
...stock article on Matanuska Valley to "at least a dozen newspapers." In November it was printed in the Topeka (Kansas) Capital. Topeka's Capper's Weekly also swallowed it. In December the Kansas City Journal-Post published it. By April Pledge Brown had reached Washington, where the rich and cautious Sunday Star was glad to buy his threadbare yarn...
...motorboat hobby date from 1911 when Gar Wood, then an automobile distributor in Duluth, Minn., thoughtfully observed a big truck being dumped by a hand crank. Setting to work, he invented a hydraulic hoist to dump trucks by power, founded a company to make it. His invention made him rich...
Oppenheim books taste of aristocratic beauties, international spies, missing jewels, noblemen in disguise, lurking assassins. They have a spice, but just a spice, of sex. And through them all trickles, a rich essence of good food and drink. The latest Oppenheim is no exception to the Oppenheim rule. Reduced to its crude elements of malt, sugar and salt, it might seem a lifeless and unlikely concoction. But to Oppenheim addicts it is a thoroughly lively and likely affair...