Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boards of directors would have rushed to urgent, solemn meetings. The stockmarket would have roared downward. Life insurance companies would have faced an emergency. For the guests at Lynnewood Hall last week included not just a dozen or so millionaires but at least 100 of the country's richest men. Among those who broke bread with the Master of the Hall that night were Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank A. Seiberling, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Sebastian Spering Kresge, Byron D. Miller (Woolworth), William Wallace Atterbury, Daniel Willard, Henry Latham Doherty, Joseph and Robert Graham, William Larimer Mellon, Col. Edward Howland Robinson...
Omaha also has a Coliseum and it was here that the 38th King & Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben held their levee in a setting modeled after the Temple of Love at Versailles. Congressman Malcolm Baldrige, as Court Chancellor, addressed the regal train, the State's best and richest young and old folk. King was William Henry Schellberg, 6-ft., silver-haired president of Union Stock Yards Co., done up in the usual Empire court dress complete with cream satin knee-pants. Long a leading figure in Omaha, he is credited with having done much to build...
...bred children are entered in exclusive boys' & girls' schools before they are born, so colts and fillies are entered in the Futurity at Belmont Park, N. Y. before they are foaled. The entries are renewed if the horse shows promise, thus piling up the world's richest purse-last week $108,450. Out of 2,026 original entries for this year, only eleven horses finally started. Climax of Long Island's smart racing season, this year's Futurity was run on a soft track before 20,000 people. Odds on favorite was William...
After pausing for two weeks at the door of a bedroom in Chicago's Drake Hotel, last week Death came, as it must to all women, to Edith Rockefeller McCormick. Once she was called the world's richest woman. But cancer makes no distinctions. Two years ago she had a growth removed from her breast. It reappeared in her liver. When she moved to the Drake from her mansion on Lake Shore Drive in June (TIME, Aug. 1), she and her doctors knew the end was near...
...medical insurance system of Cuba's mutual benefit clubs last week forced the National Medical Federation of Cuba to call a strike. The clubs, or centres?notably the Galician Centre and the Asturian Centre each with about 100,000 members ?are among Cuba's richest institutions. Tourists often mistake the ornate Asturian clubhouse near the new Capitol Building for President Machado's palace which is several blocks away...