Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decency of American morals is involved. The example of successful tax-dodging by a minority of very rich individuals breeds efforts by other people to dodge other laws...
...every stop in the 900-mi, trip across the plains to Shanghai, rich and poor Chinese crowded to see the man who was rich enough to hire a special. To the sick man they paid little attention, because the Press had raised a great tirade against the influential American who had pre-empted the respirator which might otherwise have been used to save a Chinese life...
...name but $5 worth of stamps and a printing bill. Tirelessly circularizing small-town bankers and car owners, George Pepperdine sold that year $12,000 worth of tops, tires, gadgets. Five years later he opened a branch of his thriving Western Auto Supply Co. in Denver. When rich Mr. Pepperdine sold his controlling interest and retired to California, he became so twitchy that he started a new Western Auto Supply Co. on the Pacific Coast, which now has more stores (over 200) than the original company. Familiar to most coast motorists is Western's emblem, "Saving Sam," a model...
...heretofore part of the province of Milwaukee. Thus the Detroit archdiocese becomes the fifth largest in the U. S. Within it the Pope set up a new diocese, Lansing, 93rd in the U. S. Its bishop will be Most Rev. Joseph Albers, present auxiliary bishop of Cincinnati, brother of rich Merchant William Henry Albers (A. Nash Co., Albers Super Markets). And to organize and run the whole archdiocese of Detroit, Pius XI chose a trusted prelate, the only active Archbishop in the U. S. without an archdiocese-Most Rev. Edward Francis Mooney, Archbishop-Bishop of Rochester...
Henderson and Aldrich were the last survivors of a critical age rich and already remote. They moved freely and importantly in the world of Henry Edward Krehbiel. Philip Hale, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Theophilus Finck. Patti was more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...