Word: richest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...richest, the ripest, the most inspiring and the fruitiest group of all, was the group of serious students who were social about it." That was the answer of a University of Pennsylvania 1929 graduate-Samuel Lipshutz...
Through a lighted window shaggy old Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France could be seen in his celebrated fighting attitude, slumped and seemingly dozing in a great arm chair, while the onus of battle was borne by his dynamic lieutenant, Louis Loucheur, famed walrus-moustached industrialist and "Richest Man in France." Came a rumor that Germany's bald, flabby-fleshed Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann had suddenly collapsed in the midst of an impassioned speech, smitten by his old kidney trouble. The rumor was corrected; Dr. Stresemann had merely gone very pale and turned over the task of talking...
...Power of Evil (Armenian). Said to be the first feature production made under supervision of the Armenian Soviet, The Power of Evil tells what happens when a family conceals the fact that its daughter has epilepsy so as to marry her to the richest young man in the village. It is subtly acted, well photographed, superbly directed. U. S. audiences, familiar with the works of Armenian mot-maker Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian) will find no traces of that young man's simpering suavity in this sombre, compact story. You see how the bridegroom's mother and sister plot...
When half the banking resources of the commercial filter of the country's richest, most literate agricultural State become concentrated in one bank, that situation is significant. The State is Iowa-farm products $750,000,000 yearly, industrial products $800,000,000. The filter is Des Moines, population 151,900. The bank will be the lowa-Des Moines National Bank & Trust Co., resources $40,000,000, result of a merger (to be formally voted next week) which has more relative importance to the corn belt than the recent stupendous bank mergers in Manhattan, Chicago or San Francisco have...
Directors will include the Hubbells, richest Iowa family after the Maytags (washing machines) of nearby Newton. The Hubbells own the $100,000,000 Equitable Life Insurance Co. of Iowa, and $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 of Des Moines real estate. Connecticut-born, lawyer-trained Frederick Marion Hubbells, 90, is head of the family. He acts as chairman of the insurance company. Two much younger Hubbells, Fred and Jim, financed and starred on the Des Moines polo team for several years...