Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South of Madrid the driving Leftists advanced within 65 miles of beauteous Seville, "Queen City of Andalusia," but Rightist forces avoided a "bottling-up drive" launched to entrap them. Some 10,000 Italians were reported defending this rich orange-growing region and the nearby sherry country. According to London trade figures released last week, England continues to buy almost exactly as great a volume of oranges and sherry as last year from "Business as Usual" Spain-the only difference being that this year the British have had to pay cash. North of Madrid last week the Rightist offensive of General...
...characteristic gesture last week opened the bag of information about Spain which his espionage service keeps replenishing daily, shook out through his press spokesman Editor Virginio Gayda of Giornale d'ltalia whole pages of minute particulars of Soviet, French and other "neutral" aid to the Spanish Leftists. So rich was this shower of charges in detail that only the chiefs of other espionage services were in a position to estimate its exactness. Laymen and journalists noted that Italy's charges amount to saying that Socialist Premier Blum, while prating of neutrality, has been winking at wholesale smugglery...
...about the Colonel's domicile many a loyal old Texan went before Surrogate Owen's Commissioner, Raymond C. Prime, to vouch for Hetty Green's London-born son as a Texan. Among them was a tall, lanky Negro named William Madison ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald, 70 and rich. He was Colonel Green's political lieutenant between 1897 and 1909 at a salary of $575 per month. Recalled...
Excursion (by Victor Wolfson; John C. Wilson, producer) is the log of the S. S. Happiness, Obediah Rich, commanding. He and his vessel had grown old together and were both soon to be decommissioned. So he summoned his elder brother down from Yarmouth, got his passengers aboard, tooted his whistle and on a fine Sunday morning, with the sun high in the sky, Obediah (Whitford Kane) and the Happiness set out for their last cruise from Manhattan's 125th Street to Coney Island...
...into the mighty Columbia. The first Frank, Sigmund, joined Meier in partnership and married his daughter. By 1883, when the Northern Pacific came through, they were prosperous. After that, as Portland's deep draft harbor thrived and the cool city grew around it, the Meiers and Franks became rich and powerful. For years their 15-story building has been the financial fulcrum of the city, its advertising the lifeblood of Portland's three newspapers. And the store has won the final tribute of a nickname - "Murphy & Finnegan...