Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad was not present, it being an old Hyderabad tradition that "the Sovereign is too precious to his people ever to leave India." Actually the stingy Nizam, said to possess a miser's horde of $500,000,000 in gold apart from other wealth totaling $2,000,000,000, is not exactly his people's joy, much less that of his ministers. One of these harassed statesmen, when asked, "Why do you always arrive at the Palace in a Ford?" replied, "I am afraid that His Exalted Highness might consider my Rolls Royce a present...
...victory; the New York Governor who rode into office on the laurels of San Juan Hill; the Vice President who presided over the Senate only four days, before stepping into the White House; the President who rattled the sword, yet kept the peace, who flayed "malefactors of great wealth," yet took their campaign contributions for reelection. Biographer Pringle's result is a very real Great American...
...Latin countries we have the best opportunities for observing contrasts. Dominated for centuries by the arbitrary dogmas of wealth, church and state, the Latin-American mind gets nowhere, invents nothing and is fearful of every new and original idea and there is a very considerable mental stratum in the U. S. A. that functions on the same plane...
Well does Commissioner Mahaffie realize the gravity of the roads' plight, as serious a matter to savings banks and trust funds as to railroads. In 1928 (latest figure) the nation's wealth was estimated at $360,000,000,000. Of this, about $22,000,000,000 represented the people's investment in railroads. Because most of the carriers' securities have long and regularly earned the one-and-one-half times their fixed charges (interest on bonds) required by law in New York State for securities held by mutual savings banks and trust funds, such institutions (including...
...prestige in shipping of the young men who have been the driving force in the I. M. M.-Roosevelt combination. Of these the central figure is Kermit Roosevelt, diffident, able son of the late great Theodore. To his success with a small jute-carrying line was added the vast wealth of that solemn yacht-lover, Vincent Astor, who describes himself as "head of the Astor family in the U. S." Roosevelt ambition plus Astor money plus the friendship of young John M. Franklin, resulted in control of I. M. M. of which young Mr. Franklin's father remains titular...