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...somewhat shocked, being patriotic, by the behavior of one who, although he is my uncle, should know better. . . . I refer to the Duke of Westminster. He is one of the richest Englishmen. His money should do good in and to England. Instead of shouldering his responsibilities, he has two houses in France, a pack of boar hounds also in France, a yacht on which he spends a good deal of his time in foreign waters, and now I see he is no longer going to have any race horses in England. He has sent his string over to France...
Though he has been a shining improvement over his predecessor of 25 years ago, the debauched Cipriano Castro, there are many things about Dictator Gomez difficult to align with Nordic ideas of civil virtue. The old General is not only the richest man in Venezuela, but for all practical purposes owns the country. It has been charged that no project, from cattle breeding to oil leases, can exist without payment of a personal tribute to El Benemerito. All attempts to overthrow his government are instantly and brutally suppressed. Venezuela's pride, her highway system, has been built largely...
Frederick Henry Prince is generally regarded as New England's richest citizen and Boston's crustiest celebrity. Hard-bitten son of a Democratic Boston mayor, he quit Harvard to enter the brokerage business, married the daughter of a wealthy waterworks builder, quickly became one of State Street's most spectacular figures. His firm of F. H. Prince &; Co. installed the first stockticker in Boston. In the 1890's he developed Chicago Junction Railway, which he later leased for 99 years to New York Central for an annual rental of $2,000,000. and bought up Chicago...
Oldest of New York dailies, the Evening Post, founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801, has changed hands many times. The last time was in 1923 when white-thatched Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, richest of U. S. publishing merchandisers, marched up from Philadelphia and bought it from a Wall Street syndicate which had acquired it only the year before from Morgan Partner Lamont. For years the Evening Post, for all its fine tradition, had been a money-loser. Briefly after 1923 it looked as if Publisher Curtis might succeed where Wall Street had failed. Through Son-in-law John Charles Martin...
...other countries has been the end of inflation, not the forerunner. Charging that the people who are now raising the cry about the danger of uncontrolled inflation are creditors trying to protect their own interests against debtors, Mr. Bliven said that to him "it is unconceivable that the richest country in the world should go in for uncontrolled inflation. I don't believe the gold buying plan amounts to much...