Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family retires early, lies abed until noon, reading, smoking, dozing. Sometimes they listen irritably to the clop, clop of Wilhelm's ax, making Doom's big daily news. Lately rheumatism has kept Wilhelm abed too, denied him the chief pleasure he gets as Germany's richest man (estimated fortune...
...October 28, 1636 the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony "agreed to give 400? towards a schoale or colledge." Already a committee has been appointed for the celebration of the 300th birthday of Harvard University, oldest, richest, proudest in the land...
...sheet, with Clarence Hungerford Mackay so hard-fixed that he can no longer afford to turn them back with the quiet signing of a check, the directors of the proud New York Philharmonic-Symphony last week sent out an SOS for $500,000. Seventy of New York's richest music patrons first heard the help cry in the Park Avenue home of Harry Harkness Flagler. Already, Mr. Flagler informed them, there is a deficit of $150,000. The season's box-office receipts amount to $60,000 less than they did last year in January. Without a substantial...
Last December in Manhattan, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, Bishop Francis John McConnell and Dr. John Haynes Holmes, seasoned Liberals, urged that "the special economic privileges of the church" be curtailed because they had been abused. They listed the values of the richest Manhattan churches:* Trinity ...... .$25,000,000 St. Paul's Chapel 6,600,600 St. Bartholomew's 5,400,000 St. Thomas 5,000,000 Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas 4,000,000 Fifth Avenue Presbyterian 3,850,000 Brick Presbyterian...
...efforts to minimize and deny that catastrophic starvation condi tions ravaged the Soviet Union in the days previous to the harvest it is herewith emphatically declared and certified that in the course of the present year (1933) millions of innocent persons, many of whom were residents of the richest and most fruitful parts of Russia such as the Ukraine and the North Caucasus, died of starvation. Also, it is incontestable and undeniable that in connection with this mass starvation there were fearful accompaniments typical of all mass starvations-including even cannibalism. "These lives could easily have been saved. While this...