Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delivery at the Weyerhaeuser home at 6:25. It directed that communication with "The Egoist" be inserted in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer over the name of "Percy Minnie." Next day secrecy could be preserved no longer. The second morning the nation's Press shrieked that one of the richest children in the U. S. had been KIDNAPPED...
...Frederick Weyerhaeuser told his partners when he bought his first acreage west of the Rockies, "nor for our children, but for our grandchildren." Frederick had by that time begotten John Philip and three younger sons, three daughters. He had settled in a great house in St. Paul, whose richest citizen he was. But with shyness and dislike of ostentation characteristic of Weyerhaeusers to this day, Frederick's house was not quite so big as James J. ("Empire Builder") Hill's next door...
...Pont treated his guests more handsomely than Mr. Ford treated his guests the week before. After giving the tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists a neat New Englandish lunch, Mr. Ford took his richest guest, Irénée du Pont (middle brother), away for a private conference. Pierre du Pont regaled his guests, practically every last man of whom would have liked a job with the Du Ponts, with a splendid twilight dinner in the ballroom of his gorgeous greenhouse. An organ recital soothed the diners, and colored lights playing on the estate's fountains...
Last week in Washington Mellon's lawyers produced experts to drum home the undoubted fact that the five pictures are valuable. Baron Duveen of Millbank, probably the world's richest art dealer, agreed to the identity of the five pictures...
Major John Gander, richest and most respected citizen of Lammiter. was a crotchety old bachelor but he had his share of relatives. And at his death they all looked forward rather than back. The will was a great shock to all of them: it left the bulk of his estate to the one who should have become the parent of the most legitimate children in a limited time. As only two of the heirs-apparent were married, and only one of them had a child, the race promised to be interesting. Katherine, the childless wife, went rushing off to meet...