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Known variously and vaguely as "The Richest Man in the World," "The Armaments King," "The Mystery Man of Europe," Sir Basil Zaharoff, Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and of the Order of the Bath, Doctor of Laws, Oxford, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, etc., is one of the most prominent members of the world's unburied dead. Still alive at 86, he retired eight years ago, now lives in senile seclusion on his French estate at Balincourt. To pacifists the single-handed murderer of millions, to Reds a mummified museum-piece of capitalism...
...Roosevelt came of a good family; he had wealth; he passed through the best and most expensive education in the country. After twentynine years, he found himself in a position where the richest and most powerful nation in the world was at his feet, begging for leadership, for strength, for intelligence. He yielded to the intrenched stupidity of special interests; to capital he gave monopoly, to labor he gave crooked unionism and class bitterness. Only borrowing on a back-breaking scale floated the country off the rocks of disaster...
...Hoare-Laval Deal to make peace between Italy and Ethiopia, mainly at the expense of Ethiopia but leaving the greater and by far the richest portion of the Empire intact (TIME, Dec. 23), Sir Samuel approached not apologetically but with a brisk question as to whether the House knew what other and spontaneous proposals for peace have in fact been made by the Emperor, the Dictator and the League. Ignorance was obvious on all sides. Many M.P.s sat up to listen as though hearing for the first time much which they might have read weeks and months...
...great so-called prosperity. ... In that orgy of 'prosperity' a wild speculation was building speculative profits for the speculators and preparing the way for the public to be left 'holding the bag.' ... In that orgy of 'prosperity' the poorest vied with the richest in throwing their earnings and their savings into a cauldron of land and stock speculation. In that orgy of 'prosperity' slum conditions went unheeded, better education was forgotten, usurious interest charges mounted, child labor continued, starvation wages were too often the rule. . . . Mammon ruled America. Those are the years...
...consternation London dressmakers estimated that 1,000 of the richest women in the realm will fail to buy the new gowns they would have worn to Londonderry House, with a consequent loss "to the trade" which they set roundly at $500,000. Baffled by Baldwin, Lady Londonderry was expected to return to her pen which has already produced such dainty books as The Magic Inkpot...