Word: richest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Word has just been received from the Austrian Government that the cast of the porphyry sepnlchral figure of Emperor Frederick III in Vienna Cathedral, ordered a year ago by the Germanic Museum, is now completed and will soon be shipped. This is one of the richest and most decorative pieces of flamboyant Gothic sculpture of the second half of the fifteenth century. The Emperor, in gorgeous vestment, with crown, imperial orb and sceptre, is standing under a vaulted canopy the front of which contains a relief of St. Christopher with the Christ child. Around the Emperor are grouped the emblems...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is the richest of U. S. railroads. Its assets are approximately a billion and a quarter dollars. It has 2,324,095 shares of common stock outstanding. Great institutions as well as little people own that stock. It yields them now $23,240,950 each year...
...pool and came out with $100,000. Soon he was a millionaire producer with properties dotted all through the midwest, from southern Kansas to northern Texas. He would spot a place, buy or lease it, develop it, sell out and look for another place. He kept control of richest wells...
George Remus came to the U. S. from Germany at the age of four. He made himself a lawyer, specializing in divorce cases and defense of gangsters. Then he took up the bootlegging racket in Cincinnati, became the richest U. S. 'legger, built himself a $1,000,000 mansion with a Grecian swimming pool, murdered his wife, Imogene. He conducted his own defense, insulted Prosecutor Charles Phelps Taft II in court, was found not guilty of murder on grounds of insanity (TIME...
...Singapore, bound for New York. On May 10, the President Polk will leave pier 9, Jersey City, for the 100th round-the-world cruise of the Dollar Line. All over the U. S., newspapers, friends, and business competitors pay their respects to Robert Dollar, the oldest and richest shipowner on the Pacific Coast...