Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself he philosophized like many a retired businessman: "I never took pride in the fact that I made money. It was a pride in accomplishment. . . ." In Exile. Samuel Insull did not come back the same man who sailed from Quebec on the Empress of Britain in June 1932. His wealth lost, deprived of power but not yet humiliated, he first settled down in Paris on an $18,000-per-year pension granted him by his old companies. But humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks began to hound him in the streets. Finally, just before...
...guttural-voiced "beards" whirls Jaffe into an inspiration. He will produce the Passion Play of which they are members, adding dervishes, camels, elephants, an ibis and Lily Garland as Magdalen. Jaffe finds a willing backer in a religious fanatic (Etienne Girardot) who has delusions of wealth and sneaks through the train pasting up pious stickers. Quickly the Passion Play collapses, but Jaffe has another trick ready to get his actress back...
These matters disposed of, the Southern Methodists: 1) voted their faith in Prohibition; 2) elected a new council of nine which will supersede the bishops as a church court of appeals; 3) came out for peace and conscription of wealth as well as man power in wartime; 4) flayed immoral motion pictures; 5) changed the name "Sunday School'' to "Church School"; 6) approved a plan to seek 750,000 new members during the next quadrennium: 7) voted that admission requirements to the Southern Methodist ministry include four years in college; 8) denied women the right of ordination...
...brokerage firms but the total volume of business in the five years and eight months was approximately $292,000,000,000-a figure not far from the total national wealth. On this great turnover brokers' profits amounted to approximately three-tenths of 1%. Mr. Pecora also failed to mention the fact that State and Federal transfer taxes during the period yielded more than $360,000,000, an amount equal to about 40% of brokers' total profits. Boiling mad at Mr. Pecora's tactics, President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange roundly damned the report...
...career with petty robberies in Indianapolis, got enough cash to buy a fast car and guns, turned to bank robbing for which his contempt for human life fitted him. Within three months after his release from prison three banks alone yielded him over $40,000. With his new wealth and daring he plotted the release of his jailbird cronies whom he supplied with smuggled arms. Four days before their successful break at Michigan City, the police caught him in a woman's apartment in Indianapolis. He was sent to Lima, Ohio for trial on a bank robbery charge...