Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaning reluctantly toward the President's Plan. Senator Hatch, who postponed private engagements in order to hear Dean Smith out, announced after the hearing that he was ready to go whole hog for the Smith plan. Senator Logan surrendered before the hearing ended. Raising a last objection that rich and powerful conservatives might defeat the Smith amendment, he grinned with relief when the Dean declared: "Those same people could only carry two States in the last election, Senator. We beat them then, and I think we can beat them easily...
...early 1660s Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, bleary-eyed and improvident, set up his easel to paint Hendrickje Stoffels as Juno, swathing her in paste jewels and the rich worn old velvets he loved so well. As patrons of the current cinema Rembrandt will recall (TIME, Dec. 14), Hendrickje was his housekeeper and mistress. Rembrandt died a pauper, was forgotten for generations, was rediscovered and has now become among the highest priced and most frequently forged of all Old Masters. Last week it was made known that another Rembrandt, just discovered, had reached the U. S. Art critics put aside...
...miles north of Toronto. A onetime British butcher, he served in the Boer War, got a veteran's grant in Canada, turned to prospecting when the land proved barren. During the World War he was famed as the only millionaire private in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. So rich he does not know what to do with his money, he nevertheless complains bitterly about two things: 1) having to walk downstairs to answer the telephone at night and 2) having to pay 70% of his income to the Government. For a while he dabbled with a string of race horses...
Died. John Drinkwater, 54, British poet & playwright; in his sleep, of a heart attack possibly induced by excitement over the Oxford-Cambridge boat race; in London. He subsisted as an insurance man until he persuaded a rich young friend, Barry Jackson, to back his play Abraham Lincoln. At his death Playwright Drinkwater had completed The King's People, a film to be released at the Coronation starring George Bernard Shaw, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lady Astor, himself...
Meddling families and friends soon precipitated a hopeless mess. Alec ran off with the 16-year-old governess, had a child by her, finally married her apathetically after turning down Betsy's offer to come back to him. Betsy married her rich, aged, Socialist cousin Max. The children took sides, floundered precariously trying to adjust themselves to their parents' sorry conjugal relations...