Word: richest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosecution was Lawyer Miller's statement of intent: "We hope to show that Sir Joseph has built up an organization which is the finest of its kind in the world and has a strangle hold on the picture business. . . . He has established such contacts with the richest clientele in the world that scarcely anyone else can sell an oil painting. He has built up such a business that when he condemns that picture it is dead, and he knows it. He has had competitors who have found that he uses the tactics of condemning a picture or a work...
...Caligula's time, 12-41 A.D., the popular rendezvous of Rome's patrician bounders was Lake Nemi (Nemorensis Lacus). There among symbolic oak trees was the Temple of Diana, richest in Latium. Diana was the moon goddess, Caligula's unreachable hope. Every time she was full he would stretch out his arms to her, implore her to his embraces...
...other sure thing is Secretary of the Treasury: Andrew William Mellon. Long exploded is the nonsense that businessmen sacrifice themselves when they take public office. Mr. Mellon has enjoyed being Number One finance man of the world's richest country. After one year under President Hoover, he will be 75, and may retire with the record of having graced three administrations. There are eight other cabinet positions. At least eight men were last week recommended for each of them. Mr. Hoover enjoyed listening to the fine things that were said about all of them. Mr. Hoover was neither stiff...
...would absorb several liberal papers with her Petit Parisien, while M. Coty planned on various expansions and absorptions with his politically-conservative, journalistically-yellow papers. The Dupuy interests are valued at some $15,000,000 while M. Coty likes to be told he is one of the half-dozen richest men in the world...
...make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom was raging up and down the Amazon (circa 1900) the rubber taxes collected by the states of Para and Amazonas (see Map) made their capitals, Belem, and Manaos, two of the richest cities of their size in the world...