Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas to prospect for oil wells, and one of his wells "came in." So in 1904, when son Alfenrolled at the University of Kansas, he didn't have to work his way through college, as had college men Knox, Hoover and Borah. Alf joined Phi Gamma Delta, the "rich boys fraternity" of his day at Kansas, and proceeded to make a reputation for himself of being stingy. He had the first tuxedo in town, yet be campaigned successfully to cut the ice cream course from the house menu. He fought hard to have only one orchestra instead...
...Benito Mussolini was worried last week by the mounting costs of his African war or the continued resistance of the Ethiopians, he gave no sign of it to a hundred foreign journalists who motored out with him to what used to be the Pontine marshes, are now rich wheat fields and model Fascist towns. In the past six years three of such towns have been built (Littoria, Sabaudia, Pontinia), all following the same basic plan, and all equipped with a town hall, parish church, school, police station, Fascist headquarters, cinema, sports field and playgrounds before the first private home...
When, in Paris, where his deluxe fencing school was on the Rue de Crenelle, swordsman Nadi heard about the fencing boom in the U. S., he pricked up his ears. In addition to promising rich dividends for teaching, it would take him closer to Hollywood. Darkly handsome, 6 ft. tall and so slim (135 Ib.) that he offers opponents a discouragingly narrow target, Swordsman Nadi, who once acted in a French film, has always wanted to go there...
...carried virtually all the oil Colombia has ever produced, less than 175,000,000 bbl. Most famed of Colombia's undeveloped concessions is the Barco, covering an area larger than that of Rhode Island. Originally granted to the late General Virgilio Barco, an able Colombian who had grown rich in such varied activities as cattle, sugar, matches, liquor, the Barco Concession has had a purple history. After sinking more than $100,000 of his personal fortune in development work, General Barco put his concession on the market. Through the intervention of a seasoned promoter named Carl Kendrick MacFadden, most...
Last week a court fight was in progress in Massachusetts to determine after 36 years of Pinkham family squabbling whether control of the business, which still nets $840,000 a year, would remain with the three rich grandsons of Mrs. Pinkham or with her richer daughter and two granddaughters. Each branch of the family has an equal share of the original stock. Few months ago the grandsons, President Arthur Pinkham, Vice President Daniel Pinkham and Secretary Charles Pinkham, got a temporary court order restraining the distaff branch of the family from "interfering in the conduct of the business." Spry...