Word: richest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands of "the richest man in Massachusetts" lie the lives of two Radicals. On this man who has expressed his "thorough belief" in capital punishment as "the only thing to check wanton crimes of violence" rests such hope of pardon as two men may have who are condemned to be electrocuted for murder. Believing that trial judges should be "no mere moderators or referees," but should "guide and control" inquiries, he is now asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only...
...kiri, if she felt that he had mismanaged. For answer Mme. Suzuki turned over her entire affairs to M. Naokishi and went off with her children for a summer in the mountains. When she returned bankruptcy had been averted, and soon the War boom made her Japan's richest woman...
...never did a man himself come closer to being in his biography than the late George Cram Cook now comes. Susan Glaspell, the wife with whom he lived his richest years, is an attentive woman. She appears to have seen him whole and in part, forgotten nothing. Her spirit is great enough to put self entirely aside except at moments of the greatest intimacy and importance-the very moments when an inferior nature would have quailed ox bridled. She has recreated and interpreted times and persons she could not have shared, with a quality of understanding that makes the book...
...bite of lunch. Said I to him: 'That's an old story. I don't believe you're broke, but here's the dollar. This is the proudest moment of my life.' That man was Senator James Couzens of Michigan, richest of all my colleagues, one of the original stockholders of the Ford Motor...
...young workmen, who were trying out a new Ford, saw the car go over the embankment. The police were informed. The judge and the lawyers at the Sapiro-Ford trial (see p. 23), Mr. Ford's family and intimates, several doctors and employes at the hospital knew that the richest man in the U. S. was as near death as he had ever been. Yet, so well did all these people keep their secret that it was not until three days after the crash that headlines throughout the land screamed: "FORD HURT IN MURDER PLOT...