Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power moves in. According to Admiral Byrd: "No foreign expedition has so much as looked upon [it]. . . . We have penetrated it ... lived in it ... built in it." The U. S. was laggard in claiming its discoveries in the Arctic and Pacific he argued: let it not lose this last rich find in a shrinking world...
...Mescalero Apache reservation in southern New Mexico last week went many a Navaho, Comanche, Kiowa and Oklahoma Apache tribesman, plus hundreds of white vacationists, to join the 800 Mescaleros in a tribal ceremony. Hosts were Paul and Charles Evans, rich Apaches. The occasion: presentation of their 16-year-old daughters, Rebecca and Carolyn, to Indian society...
...event of European war the effect of a mandatory embargo is not difficult to predict. It would improve Hitler's chances for victory in a Blitzkrieg, or lightning war. It might not appreciably hurt the long-term chances of England and France, both of which have rich empires of their...
...years fiscal experts of every U.S. administration have advocated ending the tax exemption of Federal. State and municipal securities. Reasons: 1) it would close an avenue of surtax escape to the rich, 2) would halt the diversion of capital from productive private enterprise, 3) would discourage extravagant borrowing by local governments. But to New York City's peppery little Mayor LaGuardia, head of the U. S. Conference of Mayors, the whole idea is ugly...
Editors of the Pioneer, the Golden Era, the Overland Monthly, the Californian were such resourceful amateurs as Sam Brannon, wildcat Mormon leader who got rich collecting tithes from gold prospectors; Ferdinand C. Ewer, tall, goateed, atheist Harvardman who later became an Episcopal rector; Charles Henry Webb, lisping, redheaded ex-sailor and miner, wit and lady-killer, who fled to California to escape the Civil War. (In the second year of the war, 100,000 army deserters and pacifists rolled into California. Among them was a slouchy ex-river pilot named Samuel Clemens...