Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Neither suppressed nor underground is British Author Aldous Huxley, now living in Pacific Palisades, Calif. His nearly-completed novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, is scheduled for publication this fall. A realistic fantasy, it tells of a rich man who tries to prolong his life scientifically, eventually reverts toward...
...Nazis have seen it. Magnificent as is the view from the Berghof, it is surpassed by the panorama that opens below the eagle's nest-mountains stretching on over South Germany, into Ostmark, disappearing into the blue haze of distance in the south. Southeast lies Yugoslavia with its rich land of Croatia and the seacoast of Dalmatia stretching down the Adriatic. Eastward lies fertile Hungary, and Rumania with its oil wells, its grain, its ports on the Danube and Black Sea. Northeast, across what had been Czecho-Slovakia, lies Poland and the minute spot on the map known...
...sudden change of heart brought these strange bedfellows together. They were alarmed at the calamities mounting up for The Netherlands' empire-four Cabinet crises in three months, a threat to the rich Netherlands Indies with every increase of Japanese influence in Asia, pressure from Germany, a mounting financial panic at home. Two days after they took office Jonkheer de Geer's gravity was justified. The Netherlands' leading investment banking house closed its doors...
...sudden the magazine was taken up by a bunch of sporting socialites and began going great guns. Oliver Davis ("Three Dagger") Keep, who had been promotion manager of The Condé Nast Publications Inc., bought control and, later joined by a rich college (Williams) friend named Archbold Van Beuren, began promoting Cue all over the Metropolitan area. Now a 58-page "Weekly Magazine of New York Life," jamful of information about everything from radio programs to de luxe cruises, Cue this week became a full-size (7 ⅞ x 11 ¼ in.) magazine and published its first national edition...
...Judge Harry Thomas Dewhirst, head of the famed House of David. Male members of this U. S. cult neither shave nor trim their locks, eat no flesh, in the stout belief that thus they will be among the 144,000 elect when Gabriel blows his horn. Judge Dewhirst, rich onetime California jurist, bearded the Appeal Board to beg his sect off from Michigan's unemployment-compensation taxes. He admitted his colony was in business, but protested against the tax on the ground that the House of David is "religious, charitable and educational." The Board was impressed by his appearance...