Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James H. R. ("Jimmy") Cromwell, rich Doris Duke's husband, arrived in company with Governor Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal Reserve to show the President a movie on economics embodying a theory of Mr. Cromwell's to which Mr. Eccles takes strong exception. Lameduck Congressman John J. McGrath of California; Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams of WPA, who had just put his foot in his mouth again (see p. 14); Dr. Will Alexander, the Farm Security Administrator-these were Presidential callers from afar, before Ambassador Hugh Wilson arrived from Berlin...
...audience "occasionally applauded" this comedy which they were obliged to sit through by Dr. Goebbels so that his 2,000 orators can "truthfully" tell the German people such things as this: "There is right now a Jewish theatre going full blast in Berlin and playing comedies at which the rich Jews laugh and applaud while poor Jews are starving...
Torrents of rain poured down last week over the steep green mountainsides of St. Lucia, largest of the British-owned Windward Islands in the Caribbean. Old La Soufrière, 4,000 feet high, once an active volcano, now rich in sulfur and hot springs and not to be confused with nearby St. Vincent's La Soufrière, was shrouded in heavy mist. At a time when the island's June-to-October rainy season was past, St. Lucia was drenched, soaked, deluged...
Next day, as the rains continued, the worst thing of all happened. One of St. Lucia's mountains simply cracked open, sent a high wall of rich, loose loam rushing down neighboring valleys with a terrifying roar...
...niece, Mrs. Helen E. Hapgood, said, "For years we have been trying to get him to go some place where younger and stronger people could attend to his needs. He never would go, preferring his own house and his own society. He is not rich, but has sufficient money...