Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great secular corporation in the neighborhood, it had spent last year more than its income. But in the offices of Trinity Corporation on Wall Street no heads were bowed with worry over a deficit of $77,044. Trinity could spend several million dollars a year and still remain the richest church in the U. S., possibly in the world. Its productive real estate holdings in lower Manhattan are assessed this year at $27,879,400; its mortgages and securities at $3,866,239. Its site and graveyard, where clerks and stenographers from the Street lunch above the dust of Robert...
...flight with Hitler to Essen, Göring showed Hitler certain other suspicious evidence gathered by his Secret Police. The Chancellor and the General then conferred with one of the Nazi Party's earliest and richest backers, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach who led Der Führer proudly through the Krupp Works. Chancellor Hitler, after inspecting Westphalian labor camps, flew on to Bonn. General Göring flew back to Berlin. "Have my plane made ready," he commanded mysteriously...
...peak Baruch's fortune may have been about $25,000,000. He laughed openly when people referred to him as the third or fourth richest man in the U. S. What is unique for a speculator, he probably has most of his winnings today. His suite of offices was small; he kept no stock ticker beside his desk and held no directorships. Nor did he employ a large staff of economic analysts. When he bought into companies he relied on personal investigations or investigations by a few men he trusted. Notable among such men was General Hugh S. Johnson...
Death did not end, however, the story of the richest U. S. Indian. Indian Commissioner John Collier had the burial post-poned because Barnett's ex-wife wanted to bury him in California while some of his Indian relatives wanted him brought back to Oklahoma. Before the funeral Hubert Howard Barnett, 27, claiming to be a nephew, asked to be made administrator of his estate. And Mrs. Lowe said that under California law she would demand a 50% share of the estate...
...over Dr. Thorp's job until a successor was named. This was a direct blow to Assistant Director Amory who would ordinarily have become acting director. A further blow followed when Dr. Dickinson removed all power over personnel from Mr. Amory, made himself guardian over one of the richest plum trees in Washington and defied hungry politicians to do their worst...