Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cleared a few weeks ago after the case reached the California Supreme Court. Last week it looked as though Mrs. Bishop's troubles were over. Newsstories from Southern California made it appear that Mrs. Josie Bishop owns an extremely rich deposit of radium-bearing ore-one of the richest, in proportion of radium to the ton, ever discovered...
Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair argued that millions of Jews all over the world will develop harmful Freudian complexes if the Jews of Palestine, although given its richest land by the proposed partition, are denied the psychological release of owning certain sacred mounts, even though they be given other mounts. Cried emotional Sir Archibald: "Mount Pisgah will never satisfy the longings which Mount Zion inspires in the Jewish breast! I warn that the whole Jewish race would get a fixation...
...Washington Star, richest paper in town, sedate property of Frank Brett Noyes & family, announced last week that Assistant Managing Editor Benjamin Mosby McKelway, 41, would succeed the late, longtime Managing Editor Oliver Owen Kuhn...
Philadelphia seethed. The ordinance was obviously though not expressly aimed at four of the oldest and richest ornaments of the city's business life: Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. (Assets: $636,875,000), Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Philadelphia ($315,543,000), Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. ($112,438,000) and the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund for Life Insurance ($26,000,000). Most of these companies' investments and other assets are held at their headquarters in Philadelphia. Protesting that they were mortally threatened, the life insurance companies talked of moving to suburban Ardmore or Bryn Mawr, launched...
...David Yule, an extraordinary Scotsman who died in 1928 after making a fortune of $100,000,000 in Calcutta. His dislike of things European relented enough to let him marry an Englishwoman but never to live in England. Since his death, plump, inscrutable Lady Yule and Daughter Gladys ("the richest girl in England") have lived quietly at St. Albans cultivating their private zoo. Their friend, the Duke of Windsor, borrowed the Yule yacht Nahlin for his cruise last summer. When the Yules visited Manhattan last May they avoided socialites and reporters with equal discrimination, went for long walks in Central...