Word: richest
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...only private army in the British Empire is the Army of Atholl, three Scots infantry companies permitted the Dukes of Atholl by Queen Victoria.* Last July their commander, tall, hearty Sir John George Stewart-Murray, eighth Duke of Atholl. "richest man in Scotland." began to sell what he vowed were not lottery tickets. Proceeds of the sale, his agents announced, "shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Some 337,000 Englishmen had enough faith in the Duke of Atholl's dis cretion...
Every bigwig of London finance was there. Rich peers rubbed shoulders with richer bankers, richest merchants. Tall, stooped Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, stalked goutily in, followed by spry, fox-bearded Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England. They had all come to the Mansion House, ornate official home of Lord Mayor Sir Percy Greenaway, to dine with him before he is succeeded Nov. 9 by the Lord Mayor-elect, Alderman Charles Henry Collett (TIME. Oct. 9). Speeches after the guests were full of noble viands and rare wines consisted of direct hits by Chancellor Chamberlain...
Died. Tobey, 8, "richest dog in the world." last of the succession of poodles, all named Tobey, owned by the late Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel; at the hands of a veterinary; in the ancestral Wendel home at 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. One reason why Ella, last of the eccentric Wendel spinsters, never sold the valuable lot on which the old house reared its red-brick ugliness, was the counsel of her grandfather: Buy, never sell. A more important reason, to her, was that the Tobeys might have a yard to play in. She died two years...
...Hyman Barnett Zaharoff, 63, a Lithuanian living in Ruislip, Middlesex. England, claimed that he was the son of 83-year-old Sir Basil Zaharoff (Basileios Zacharias), munitions tycoon, Europe's richest, most mysterious man. Hyman Barnett Zaharoff said he was born of a secret marriage between Sir Basil and a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski. which was dissolved when he was seven...
...them, Walt Martin (Richard Arlen) stays at home, marries a neighbor's daughter, begets twins and tours his fields happily in a tractor. Walt's older brother Chris (Chester Morris) goes to Chicago, makes a fortune speculating in wheat, marries the egotistical daughter (Genevieve Tobin) of the richest speculator in the Pit. When wheat prices go down and foreclosed mortgages-without which even a problem play about a farm would be incomplete-begin to hurt the Martin farm, Chris and Walt have ugly words...