Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest business in New Jersey, and one of the biggest & best-run in the world, is Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Built by famed Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, this $700,000,000 utilities holding company, whose wires, pipes and transit lines blanket the nation's sixth richest manufacturing State, has small trouble with its legislators and public utilities commissioners. It bumped into trouble eight years ago, however, when it set out to run a high-tension line through a colony of Poles at Scotch Plains. Some Poles squeezed fancy prices from P. S. C. for their land or permission...
...phrase that expresses the taste of a generation close to ours. Norton, Darvardian like Lowell, felt the inestimable influence of architecture at a "great seat of education-especially in our country." Both men's views on architectural greatness and its pedagogic value apply not only to our oldest and richest institution, but to every college everywhere...
...figured on, Shakespere could have finished ten plays, Vergil, Milton and Homer could have written three or four more epics apiece, and Alexander and Napoleon could have conquered all existing worlds and still have had time to lay plans for expeditions to conquer Mars. But the authorities of the richest university in the country must economise on a flight of stairs...
...executive in the Church League for Industrial Democracy. Trinity's rector-elect was once arrested with Norman Thomas for unlawful assemblage at a Paterson, N. J. silk strike. His most notable exploit in eleven years as assistant rector of a Brooklyn church was to lose the parish its richest member, onetime President Matthew Scott Sloan of Brooklyn Edison Co. who objected to the young man holding labor demonstrations in front of his office. Rev. Lorin Bradford Young, 32, accepted the San Francisco call, packed up and went there...
...With earnestness we have desired to share with you in the spiritual sweetness of this richest feast and join our prayers and intercessions with yours to obtain an ever renewed and ever greater increase of faith and Catholic life ... to deprecate the unspeakable material and moral havoc of wars and their dire aftermath of tears and sorrow; to implore that peace that is so much desired by all. peace to those that are near and to those that are far, and to supplicate at least a less intolerable burden of life for a world worn to exhaustion by the ravages...