Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace proposal meant little to the Chinese and Japanese in the line. Twice in 24 hours Chinese and Japanese troops swept back and forth across Chapei's Paitse Bridge. Japan threatened to carry bombing operations 50 miles inland if further Chinese reinforcements arrived. This would mean bombing the richest paddy fields in China, between Shanghai and Nanking. Shanghai's defender, pale scholarly General Tsai Ting-kai risked it. Thirty-nine years old, he boasts that this is his 170th military campaign...
...President stopped. . . . While I was in there we fixed up all the affairs of the world. The only thing we didn't get to was Al Smith and Huey Long. . . . The President was in fine humor and he told the jokes. Said Pennsylvania, the second richest State, was the only one that had passed the tin cup for relief from the Federal Government. He laughed and got a kick out of this...
...occurred in 1902, when, with the assistance of a French engineer named Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, he succeeded in selling to the U. S. for $40,000,000 the French franchise to the Panama Canal over the rival bid of a Nicaraguan route. The firm of Sullivan & Cromwell had its richest successes in the bold bad days of big trusts 20 and more years ago. William Nelson Cromwell is supposed to be the lawyer who first figured out how to turn an illegal trust into a legal corporation. His fee for this was often as much...
...late great John Pierpont Morgan organized it in 1901. Comptroller since 1902, a director since 1920, a finance committeeman since 1922, he lives quietly in an apartment house on Manhattan's Park Ave., rides the subway to No. 71 Broadway every day. Known as the world's richest clerk, he has successfully fought publicity of any kind. The famed Filbert legend of aloofness was started many years ago by the late great Elbert Henry Gary. Said the Judge, "I have known Filbert-I mean Mr. Filbert-for 35 years as intimately as anybody could know such...
After laying a wreath on the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington, Father Cox mustered his army, started on the 300-mi. trip back to Pittsburgh. (Expenses for returning 276 stragglers by train were defrayed by Pennsylvania's richest citizen, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon.) Again, as they rumbled by, grave crowds watched them as though for the first time they were seeing a genuine sign of the times...