Word: richest
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Chairman of Finance-Herbert H. Lehman of Manhattan, Jewish banker, long time friend of Nominee Smith. This appointment was an outcropping' of one of the richest veins in the Brown Derby's field of political resources. Potent Jews seem to be preponderantly Democratic this year. Many of them were Woodrow Wilson's friends. They include Bernard Mannes Baruch, Jesse Isidore Straus,* Louis Marshal, Julius Rosenwald, Otto Hermann Kahn, Philadelphia's Gimbels...
Stocks tumbled down on the exchanges in London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels, last week, to register a total loss of more than $50,000,000. Sole reason: uncertainty had arisen as to the whereabouts of Belgium's richest Jew, M. Le Capitaine Alfred Loewenstein...
Died. Sir David Yule, 69, "richest Scotch merchant," widower parent of Miss Gladys Yule, 24, to whom he leaves 20 million pounds; at London. Son-in-law of the late Andrew Yule of Calcutta, India, Sir David prodigiously expanded the firm of Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd., and founded 80 adidtional firms in which he retained controlling interest. In 1926 he contributed largely to an unselfish syndicate of liberals who purchased the Daily Chronicle from David Lloyd George at a price which netted the Welshman $14,500,000 profit and under an agreement whereby Liberal Lloyd George still controls the policy...
...onetime "Richest Man in Hungary," Count Michael Karolyi, deposed and banished President of the defunct Hungarian Republic (1918-19), received at Mexico City, last week, two quaintly different cablegrams...
Fools for Luck. Well, if it isn't W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin, again. Goodness me, how those boys are turning out the cinemae. This time, Mr. Fields is an oil stock salesman from the big city. He dupes the folk of Huntersville, including its richest inhabitant (Mr. Conklin). But Nature, happily, brings oil to Mr. Fields' long dry wells. Slapstick, rather sour...