Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hero of the tale, lives for a revenge that is all his own. At 21, on the eve of the World War, Cristobal is a director of a Jesuit bank, making a mere $50,000 a year. At War's end, his daring speculations have made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs are merely talismans for guiding his speculations. A Russian exile's hard-luck tales, for example...
...richest, smoothest, quickest of all Spenders & Lenders is, of course, the Works Progress Administration. Having learned in previous years that announcement of the amounts of money he spends is a local publicity boomerang, Harry Hopkins talked of his plans in terms of men and jobs, not dollars. WPA's assignment is to take up unemployment slack rapidly at first, then more slowly as PWA's projects get going, then at full capacity when winter comes and heavy construction slows down. Last week WPA added 60,000 workers to its rolls, two-thirds of them in the Midwest...
...Christie's (Christie, Manson & Woods), famed London auctioneers, the voice of Captain Sir Henry Floyd was heard last week. It lost none of its discreet fervor through much use. Standing tall and straight on the rostrum, Sir Henry was presiding at the auction sale of one of the richest art hoards of modern times: the collection of the late Banker Mortimer L. Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb). Banker Schiff, who died in 1931, had built a house on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for the proper housing and display of his treasures. Behind last week's sale was the familiar...
...Flares, five-year-old son of famed Gallant Fox (1930 Kentucky Derby winner), owned by U. S. Banker William Woodward: the Ascot Gold Cup, No. i race of the world's richest and most fashionable meeting of thoroughbreds; coming from behind at the two-mile mark and defeating Lord Glanely's Buckleigh by a nose after a breathless zigzag spurt in the stretch; at Ascot Heath, an hour from London. A 100-to-7 shot, Flares avenged the defeat of his full brother Omaha, who lost by a nose two years ago. Only one other U. S.-bred...
...American who is a Jew"-so far as the referendum is concerned-is Dr. Cyrus Adler, archeologist, president of Jewish educational institutions in Manhattan and Philadelphia, and president of the American Jewish Committee. Founded in 1906. the Committee represents U. S. Jewry at its richest and most conservative, is non-Zionist, lukewarm toward boycotts and protests. Between President Adler and President Wise there is intense personal dislike. Last fortnight, speaking for his Committee and for "Americans who are Jews," Dr. Adler denounced Rabbi Wise's "Hitler plebiscite." In return, on Dr. Adler's home grounds in Philadelphia, Rabbi...