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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain that they also had many investments which have never been revealed. How much money he had, no one knew, not even himself. He said he did not care. Others said that next to Sir Basil Zaharoff he must have been, for a time at least, Europe's richest...
...fallen king can still fall, Don Alfonso XIII slipped definitely lower last week. One of the richest men and the most powerful monarchist in Spain, sad, grizzled old Count de Romanones, not only broke with his oldtime King but called him in effect a fool for flooding Spain with smuggled copies of a secret manifesto...
Greatly beloved, the gentle though shrewd doctor (D. Eng.) has put both Western pep and Western humanitarianism into the Mitsui Empire. The House of Mitsui, richest in Japan, have paid him as director of their interests $291,000 yearly, largest Japanese salary. When the House of Rockefeller wanted to give Tokyo a present of $1,600,000 they put the money into Dr. Dan's able hands, knew it would be wisely given...
...days (TIME, Feb. 8). Rev. Charles Francis Potter of the First Humanist Society described for gumchewers the last hours of Murderer Francis Crowley (TIME, Feb. 1). But very rarely does publicity attach itself to vigorous, wavy-haired Dr. Robert Norwood of St. Bartholomew's, one of the smartest and richest of U. S. Protestant Episcopal churches.? Dr. Norwood's Sunday sermons draw large and genteel crowds. Weddings in St. Bartholomew's are society page news. Last week St. Bartholomew's made news of a different sort...
Died. Mrs. Anne Weightman Penfield, 88, philanthropist, onetime "richest woman in the U. S.," relict of the late and last Ambassador to Austria-Hungary, Frederic Courtland Penfield; of pneumonia, after one day's illness; in Manhattan. At the death of her father, William Weightman, "the quinine king," she was sole heiress to a fortune of between $35,000,000 and $50,000,000, founded during the Civil War by selling quinine to the Federal Government (the old firm, Powers Si Weightman, was absorbed by Merck...