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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belmont Park (L. I.), the smartest racing crowd of the year saw Mrs. John Hay Whitney's Singing Wood win the richest race-the $103,300 Futurity for two-year-olds-at odds of 12 to i with Sir Thomas, a 50-to-1 shot, second by a head and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's Roustabout, third...
...distinguished visitor was "the seventh richest man in the world," the temporal and spiritual head of nearly 2,500,000 Hindus and Moslems-His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. In his Who's Who paragraph the bulky, 70-year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns." When he visited the World's Fair last week, to his and its immense delight he got his salute. Fair President Rufus Dawes had soldiers drawn up along Michigan Avenue and marched with the Gaekwar in pomp befitting the Fair's first...
Married. Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, 49, "America's richest bachelor," yachtsman, contract bridge expert; and Gertrude L. Conaway, 32, of Philadelphia ; quietly in Manhattan...
Michigan's white-crowned James Couzens, richest U. S. Senator, sat himself down last week and signed two checks totaling $30,423.39. One he stuck in an envelope and mailed to the receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Detroit. The other he dispatched to the receiver of equally defunct Guardian National Bank of Commerce. Then he smilingly informed his wife, Margaret Manning Couzens, that he had paid in full assessments against her as a stockholder in the holding companies for the two closed banks. He also informed the Press...
...gold mine with the war demand for coal tar products for explosives. Millions added to millions-the best part of the $2,000,000,000 fortune of the Mellons had already been assembled. In 1921 Pennsylvania's politicians pressed Mr. Harding to name "America's second richest man" Secretary of the Treasury. If the announcement had been made publicly few could have guessed who was meant. The Press had never told the public that Andrew Mellon existed. Never before 1921 had the name of Andrew Mellon appeared in a famed newspaper whose motto is "All the News That...