Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community so rich in the stuff of life could fail to provide a political scene of more than common interest and activity. True to form, with the Democratic primary elections a fortnight away, last week the Florida peninsula was restlessly ending a notably lively three-cornered fight for the nomination which would mean the occupancy of Claude Pepper's U. S. Senate seat. For the past six weeks, Messrs. David Sholtz, Mark Wilcox and Claude Pepper, as well as two other minor candidates whose names not even many Florida voters knew, had been touring Florida's sticky villages...
Most Pennsylvanians were astounded, not only by the charges, but by the hint that their once wealthy Governor had managed to do away with all of his sugar millions. For some time, however, the informed rich have been aware that Mr. Earle is no longer able to pony up such party funds as the $35,000 he gave the Democrats in 1932 and the $140,000 he put up for his own campaign in 1934. But until last week few suspected that their Sugar Boy turned Laborcrat was unable to repay a paltry $6,000, even though the continued existence...
...there on "indefinite loan." The lender, still anonymous, is not the only European collector who has recently found it expedient to store his art elsewhere. Last week the Pennsylvania Museum placed on exhibition some 50 late Renoirs never before seen in the U. S., lent for indefinite storage by rich, 34-year-old Philippe Gangnat of Paris...
Meantime Jackie was trying, and failing miserably, to make a living as a grownup. He wanted to marry blonde, lissome Actress Betty Grable. Mrs. Bernstein telephoned Betty's mother. "If Betty thinks she's marrying a rich boy," she piped, "she is mistaken. He hasn't a cent. He's a pauper." Last November Betty married Jackie anyway, began to support him on her Paramount Pictures salary of $500 a week. Since then Jackie has earned exactly $1,000, the result of two weeks' work with his wife in Paramount's College Swing, released...
Great Duveneck authority is Woodstock Artist Norbert Heermann, a onetime pupil, who wrote in his introduction to last week's exhibition: "The Painting of our first forgotten master realists, with their courageous technique and their rich, serious tonal quality of simple earth colors, have come into their own again