Word: richest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...effect that M. Briand, Premier of France once said that he did not know the difference between a stock and a bond because he had never possessed enough spare cash to purchase either. Of such stuff art popular heroes made. Last week Finance Minister Loucheur, known as "the richest man in France," save his drastic eight-billion-franc tax bill (TIME, Dec. 21) wrecked amid a storm of popular resentment Jean Frenchman made it exceedingly evident that he resented being told to pay crushing taxes by the millionaire-financier, M. Loucheur...
...country. She was helped in choosing the American artists by Marius de Zayas, art dealer; the English by Ambrose McEvoy and Augustus E. John; the French by Camille Mauclair, critic. At the time of the death of her husband, the late Edward H. Harriman, Mrs. Harriman was called "the richest and most important business woman in the world. In one of the briefest wills ever filed, he made her sole executrix of $140,000,000. None of the five Harriman children received a penny. Mrs. Harriman was careful in the education of the children. She had them taught to ride...
Last week the stockholders of the Curtis Publishing Co. of Philadelphia (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, etc.) cut their Christmas pie-one of the richest, meatiest pies since Little Jack Homer's. They voted themselves a Christmas dividend of $70,000,000 by approving the company's plan to increase the preferred stock from 200,000 to 900,000 shares and to distribute these shares (worth $70,000,000) among the holders of the 900,000 shares of common stock outstanding. This is one of the largest stock dividends ever declared. Its percentage is surpassed only...
That Harvard is at once the richest university in the country and the poorest is an old saying born of a very important truth. Rich by token of actual endowment, it is often poor by token of immediate needs. With the establishment of the new Harvard Fund whose details are announced in the news columns of this issue, this situation promises to become less serious...
Great interest centres in M. Loucheur, the new Finance Minister. If he succeeds in stabilizing the fiscal affairs of France, his prestige will transcend even M. Briand's. At present he is popularly known as France's richest man and greatest economist. His great fortune rests upon a pre-War record of sound financial ability, though vastly increased during the War. He has been Minister of Munitions (1914), Minister of the Liberated Regions (for the devastated French War areas) (1922), and Minister of Commerce (1924). Now he has announced that he will summon a consulting board...