Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville, having exhibited great delicacy by waiting until the primary was over, the Congressional committee investigating TVA announced it would review the queer-looking claim suit lost by Senator Berry against TVA for an alleged fortune in marble drowned under the waters of Norris Dam. During his campaign, rich Senator Berry had continued to protest his claims were valid, not chiseling. Cried he: "I was in the marble business long before there was a TVA or a President Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...rich-voiced, grey-haired Methodist minister who seldom mounts a pulpit, Miss Harkness teaches philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, is rated a top-notcher among U. S. theologians. Last week, calling the church "the last stronghold of male dominance," she told a Methodist Leadership School at Lake Junaluska, N. C.: "The fact that women frequently put their energies into channels which lie outside the church is often deplored by men who have the interests of the church at heart. . . . These other agencies offer women an opportunity for leadership, for creative expression . . . and in turn a recognition which they...
...Index of American Design. Like the State Guides produced by the Writers' Project, this nationwide compilation is the outcome of WPA teamwork. The stimulation of group work appearing elsewhere among the 320-odd paintings, prints, murals and sculpture on view was an occasion for pride to Daniel Catton Rich, the Art Institute's cheerful, hulking young director...
...Main Street of Delaware, Ohio, and the sluggish Olentangy River slopes the wooded campus of co-educational Ohio Wesleyan University.* The University's principal attractions (to about 1,350 students) are top-notch courses in physical education, business administration, zoology. Preeminence of zoology has been due to slender, rich-voiced Dr. Edward Loranus Rice, 67, who has instructed and delighted O. W. U. students for 40 years. Last week the board of trustees announced that they had chosen Dr. Rice to take over the job of Japan-born President Edmund Davison Soper, 60. Dr. Soper, whose resignation after...
...director of a Jesuit bank, making a mere $50,000 a year. At War's end, his daring speculations have made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs are merely talismans for guiding his speculations. A Russian exile's hard-luck tales, for example, prompt him to bet on Lenin, short-sell Russian bonds at a huge profit...