Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President last week: opened the annual American Red Cross Drive ("We must all do our part"); greeted the American Philatelic Society, convening in Hartford, Conn. ("It is a hobby that pays rich returns. . . ."); attended Armistice Day ceremonies in Arlington National Cemetery; received and charm-bathed Cuba's Dictator Fulgencio Batista wrote to C. I. O in Pittsburgh plugging peace with A.F. of L. "in the interest of all Americans...
...paid and wages required by the Act; 2) an equal amount in liquidated damages; 3) costs of the litigation. Each one of a firm's employes may sue separately, running up fantastic legal costs for employers. This undoubtedly will serve as a potent incentive to compliance and a rich field for shysters...
Mims was "particularly encouraged" by the widespread political interest shown in the last election by "every Tom, Dick, and Harry . . . rich man, poor man, beggar...
Modern cathedrals, dependent for their growth on donations from the pious, rise slowly-though nothing like as slowly as the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Sometimes their upthrust is accelerated when a rich man dies, leaves a legacy. San Francisco's Grace Cathedral (Episcopal), building since 1910 on Nob Hill, has had a different course. For the past year its staff has watched, with anxious eyes, the state of health of a doddering, 85-year-old retired dentist named Dr. Nathaniel Coulson. To the Cathedral's building fund, pious Dr. Coulson has assigned the income of no less...
...lighter could have come in off the Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine. Thus provided was a cheap route to the Ruhr from Sweden for the high grade ores so necessary for munitions manufacture...