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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trinity (Broadway and Wall Street), where Bishop Manning was rector before his elevation. Richest parish in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Manhattan Churches | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...expelled from the Stock Exchange for doing so. Thomas Fortune Ryan tried several times to retire from business but until last week he called frequently at the office he maintained in Manhattan, at the Guaranty Trust Co. It was said of him that he "could have been the richest man in the U. S." He lived in Manhattan and at "Oak Ridge" on the site of his birthplace* in Nelson County, Virginia; and the middle name, which might have been his motto, was given him by his parents who died when he was five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Death of Ryan | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Notable in last week's announcement was the name of Alexander Smith Cochran, lifelong Republican, carpetmaker of Yonkers, N. Y., third husband of Mme. Ganna Walska (at present Mrs. Harold F. McCormick), once famed as "the world's richest bachelor," founder of Yale's literary Elizabethan Club. He gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Money | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Under the guidance of Republican principles the American people have become the richest nation in the world"-richer than England and all her colonies, than France and Germany combined, . . . "onefourth of the world's wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Both points are illustrated in this case. Dr. Walker exhibited no Stratonian looseness; he made out a good case on a high plane. Nevertheless, Presbyterians will not all follow him sheeplike. Thus, three famed Presbyterians had already declared for Nominee Smith: Edward Stephen Harkness, Arthur Curtiss James, among the richest Presbyterians in the U. S., and Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Princeton pundit, Presbyterian divine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Christ & Church | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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