Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transformation of external symbols has been followed by the transformation of the people's soul. In joyous self-discipline uncounted millions have placed themselves in the service of the new idea. Beside the fanatical fighters of our revolutionary National Socialist party have stepped the soldiers of the tradition-richest army...
...Protestant churches in Chattanooga, Tenn., First Baptist is the largest, First Presbyterian the richest, St. Paul's Episcopal the most swank. Last week at St. Paul's the Episcopal diocese of Tennessee was holding its annual convention, and rich Zeboim Charles Patten, chairman of the church's endowment corporation, was telling assembled laymen and clergy about investments. Up rose Rev. Alfred Loaring-Clark, diocesan chairman of religious education...
With his job depending on his ability to keep the belga on gold, Premier Georges Theunis last week went to work. In few countries have Government expenses been pared so sharply as in Belgium. Yet last week Elder Statesman Theunis, backed by two of Belgium's richest men. Minister Without Portfolio Emile Francqui (banks, copper) and Finance Minister Camille Gutt (Katanga Copper), pared 5% more off Government pensions and salaries, 50%, off rent allowances, a big slice off relief allowances to the provinces...
...supposed to be one of the ten richest men in the U. S. But when Death came to John Emory Andrus at 93 last week, the best the Press could do was to identify him as the "millionaire straphanger." Indeed the Press never heard of the financier-philanthropist until he was past 60. And then it spotted him, a shy, parsimonious, white-bearded old gentleman, because he always rode the subway to his Manhattan office until he was 86. A few oldsters remembered that the First Citizen of Yonkers, N. Y. had served four consecutive terms in the House...
...visitor to this, the world's richest university, can hardly escape a visit to the library, famed as the largest on the planet belonging to an educational institution. He necessarily expects great splendor, nor is he disappointed. A three-story Corinthian facade is a satisfactory glory for introduction. Within, a double marble stairway and murals by Sargent are also sufficiently impressive. Shakespearean folios and holographs of Keats, along with original Spectator papers, provide an atmosphere of gentility. Tingling with anticipation, the sightseer passes from these treasures into the dingy depths of the reading-room...