Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...houses and at least $1,000,000 worth of yachts, the Fisher Brothers lunch together daily. No outsider is ever admitted to these secret family councils. Last week, however, a break occurred in what, except for their brotherhood, is their most conspicuous bond-General Motors. Fred, the eldest, the richest, and the spokesman for the other six Fishers, and Charles suddenly resigned from GM to spend more time on their personal business. That left four Fishers to build the bodies and watch over the vast Fisher investment in the biggest U. S. motor company. (Brother Howard, 34, baby...
...Morton L. Schwartz's racehorse Observant : the 65th running of the Travers Stakes, oldest horse race in the U. S.; by four lengths, with Collateral second; at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. C. Earl Leonard Mefford's trotter Lord Jim: the Hambletonian Stake, richest ($26,000) trotting race in the U. S.; by winning two heats out of four, with Muscletone second, and Princess Peg third, with one heat each; at Goshen...
...Lantenengo Street smart set of Gibbsville, of the town's underworld. Julian and Caroline English, married four years and still in love with each other, attend a Christmas Eve party at the Lantenengo Country Club. There Julian gets drunk, dashes his highball into the fat face of the richest man in town whose stories are a bore. Result: a black eye for the richest man in town, new enemies for Julian, a fight with Caroline...
...haute couture in the 1850's and whose sons and grandsons have prospered mightily. No aspiring Paris dressmaker ever forgets the fact that Gabrielle Chanel, the country girl from Auvergne, was said to be worth $15,000,000 as late as 1932 and is considered one of France's richest woman. Even 35 years ago openings attended by such widespread public interest as those of last week were unheard of. Before the War the couturiers of Paris were a small, select group catering to the queens and grandes dames of Europe. Even these moneyed customers consulted a couturier only when...
...ingredient of Ladies Should Listen should interest seasoned cinemaddicts, Charles Ray, whose characterizations of shy rustics made him one of the richest U.S. cinemactors twelve years ago, functions as a doorman devoted to a telephone operator...