Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much in evidence in the Dominion, but Dr. Cody believes that it is somewhat less extensive than it is this side of the border. He stated that in his opinion the Canadian students are barder workers and live more simply than those in the United States. "You're the richest country in the world, you know," he added, "even if you are having your bad moment...
...York Central, traditional rival of the Pennsy, boasts a "water level" route to Chicago. Its domination of the richest State in the Union dates back to the management of Cornelius Vanderbilt. For two generations the House of Morgan, George Fisher Baker's First National Bank and the Vanderbilt sons and grandsons have been at Central's throttle. But early this month a new force entered the Central when 74-year-old Leonor Fresnel Loree, the bush-bearded president of smallish Delaware & Hudson, triumphantly announced that he had bought 10% of Central's stock (TIME, Feb. 6). Last...
Still Spain's "richest man," if he could escape confiscation by the Republic of his fantastically huge estates, was hawk-nosed old Don Alvaro de Figueroa y Torres Count de Romanones last week. Solemnly, fervently he declared to the Agrarian Reform Council: "Never, in all the years that I served King Alfonso [several times as Premier] did I ever avail myself of my privilege, as a Grandee of Spain, to remain covered in His Majesty's presence at Court...
...senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born and richest" woman of France when Napoleon III was Emperor, her greatest pride was in being the first woman appointed Wolf Lieutenant of Rambouillet, ancient office to protect districts from wolves, now an excuse with police privileges to hunt boar in the state forests...
Founded in 1778, Phillips Academy, Andover, is the nation's oldest preparatory school. In 1903, far from the nation's richest and by no means the best, Andover got for its new headmaster an alumnus and onetime instructor. In succeeding years, under his influence, the school grew rich and great. From Nice, France last week came word that Headmaster Alfred Ernest Stearns, 61, was resigning because of ill health. Accepting regretfully the resignation, the trustees announced that Latin Instructor Charles Henry ("Charlie") Forbes, a short, chubby, popular classicist, possessor of one of the world's best Virgil...