Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will of Baron Melchett, "one of the richest men in England," surprised the public when it disclosed that his estate at his death was only $2,500,000. But it did not surprise financial wiseacres who were aware that most of his holdings were in stocks knocked down by the economic depression, particularly Imperial Chemical and International Nickel. The remaining estate will be divided among his family. The new Lord Melchett will inherit half the estate. Lady Erleigh, daughter-in-law of the Marquess of Reading, Great Britain's No. 1 Jew, is to receive Lord Melchett...
...Japanese Diet last week Deputy Tokuho Mitsui (not a member of the "House of Mitsui," richest in Japan) was stabbed in the arm with a fountain pen. A dagger flashed. In the wild melee several heads and hands were slashed. Other heads grew lumps after the police poured in. When the fight first began, Acting Prime Minister Baron Shidehara was in a nearby room. Without an instant's hesitation he walked out of the Diet Building surrounded by his six new plainclothesmen (all jiu-jitsu experts), climbed into his limousine and drove home...
...fascinating woman with a genius for attracting calamity, trailed her poverty-stricken menage all over Europe, but Sophie never saw her again till she was grown up. By that time Clarissa's family were as well-trained as her servants. Sophie was maneuvered into an engagement to London's richest bachelor and was about to submit, although she was really in love with Clarissa's son Lucien, when the old Princesse arrived in the vicinity. Where the Princesse was, romance bloomed, common sense withered. Clarissa surprised herself by giving in, gave the children her munificent blessing...
...richest man in Italy five years ago was Signor Riccardo Gualino, clapped into jail last week. Like the Courtaulds of England, the Gillets of France, the American du Ponts, Italy's Gualino reaped stupendous riches from the comparatively new trick of producing silk without silkworms. He became a billionaire-in lire. Only recently Billionaire Gualino was virtually sole owner of Snia Viscosa, the leading Italian artificial silk works. His philanthropies were on a scale approached by no other Italian. Sometime ago, when his affairs became entangled, "The Richest Man in Italy" was able to borrow from Banca Agricola Italiana...
Elected. Jean Borotra, Basque tennis player; to be a director of Lower Rhenish Iron Foundries & Machinery Co.; in Paris. An able engineer, he has made a fortune in gasoline pumps, is reputed the richest man of his years (31) in France...