Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plaza del Oriente in front of the Royal Palace in Madrid was kept clear by police and mounted Civil Guards. Inside, pale, sober Alfonso XIII scratched busily at his manifesto with a gold pen. With a scrawl of his signature he rose, handed the paper to Count de Romanones, "richest man in Spain," until that morning Royalist Minister of State. Said Alfonso to the Count...
...carloads of flowers and on view was the Cathedral treasure: a sacred stole blazing with Byzantine gems which once studded the mantle of the Empress Constantia. But as he knelt at the altar beside Princess Isabelle last week the Count of Paris was garbed in a mere cutaway, his richest ornament a gardenia...
Three of the most prominent Cabinet members at once tried to resign, were curtly told that the King did not accept their resignations. "Most disastrous!" groaned Count de Romanones, "richest Spaniard," entrapped as Minister of State by the King's rebuff. (Despite the fact that Count de Romanones is supposed to own the manorial town of Guadalajara outright, he had been unable to keep its citizens from electing Republicans...
...industrial banking and real estate operations, for the Grangesberg Co. iron mines (Europe's biggest), for the control of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Master of its many operations, getter of its match monopolies is close-shaven,quick-speaking Ivar Kreuger, self-made, much publicized "world's richest bachelor." To shareholders last week he reported that Kreuger & Toll during 1930 earned $24,163,000 from dividends and interest received, against $14,278,000 from those sources in 1929. Trading profits however were $8,626,000 against $14,816,000. The net result was that Kreuger & Toll in 1930 had profits...
...dealers, whose business entails an endless succession of free exhibitions before a surfeited public, have an oriental trait: seldom on view, kept in the back rooms of their bazaars for the eyes of richest customers alone, are their greatest treasures. But last week New Yorkers with charity in their hearts and 50? in their pockets were able to see more than 100 of these back-room masterpieces, contributed by 33 art galleries. Purpose of the show was to raise money for the Women's Fund of the Emergency Unemployment Committee. Women as well as men are unemployed...