Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solidly backed by his vice-chairmen- Connecticut's longtime Boss John Henry Roraback. Oregon's Ralph E. Williams, rich and buxom Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania and Mrs. John E. Hillman of Colorado-Chairman Hamilton did not rise to the Fish bait. On his own behalf he said only: "I have no particular defense to make of the last campaign. There were lots of errors, but I said at the start there would...
Object of a waif like Ching-Ching, as seasoned child cinemaddicts are well aware, is to find rich and personable parents to adopt her. Randall is unmarried and the only eligible girl on board, Susan Parker (Alice Faye), is already engaged and traveling with her future mother-in-law. This does not dishearten Ching-Ching. She shows Randall and his valet (Arthur Treacher) how to sing a lullaby, goes sightseeing in Hongkong and voices a few proverbs, which detective picture addicts will recognize as from the Chanese. Sample: "A child without parents is like a ship without a rudder." When...
...Conscious of its limitations, he utilizes the waif motif in rudimentary form. Breen appears first in the custody of a fat colored mammy (Louise Beavers), who says she rescued him from a burning village in the Civil War. On the chance that ha may be the scion of a rich Northern family named Ainsworth. he is shipped to New York where he encounters a jealous little cousin (Marilyn Knowlden). a kindly butler (Charles Butterworth ) and a tyrannical old lady (May Robson) who refuses to believe she is his grandmother until a rendering of a Stephen Foster chorus prompts...
...RICH LAND, POOR LAND-Stuart Chase -Whittlesey House...
...director of the Bank for International Settlements ("The World Bank") at Basle, Switzerland in 1930. Three years later, at 43, he became president, continued his habits of cutting red tape. In 1935 Mr. Fraser retired from B. I. S. to take the vice-presidency of Manhattan's rich, conservative First National Bank ("The Baker Bank"), his first job as a commercial banker. Last week, First National's chairman, George Fisher Baker, son and namesake of the founder, announced that President Jackson Eli Reynolds, 63, would retire Jan. 1 at his own request, would be succeeded by Vice President...