Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from his seclusion to hold his first press conference in a fortnight, to announce the appointment of a generalissimo of relief and an impressive advisory committee (see p. 8), followed this up with a pronouncement on the Nation's health in poverty, which he found better than in wealth...
...much about developing Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. as he did about keeping out of jail. Beside his brother through these humiliating times stood Earle Westwood Sinclair, president of Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. since 1921. Trained as a banker in the Southwest where oil is the basis of most wealth, Olde Brother Earle came to know the petroleum business as well as his own. While Brother Harry was packing pills in the Washington jail, he carried on, the company prospered. He still administers many of the company's affairs with vigor while Brother Harry travels, negotiates, tries to build...
...years the Princess Klara has been a fanatical opponent of Count Bethlen who, she believes, has persistently refused to allow the enthronement of 18-year-old Archduke Otto upon the vacant throne of Hungary. What makes her a dangerous opponent is that she is wealthy and can use her wealth to great political advantage. She is intelligent, she has had long training in European intrigue. Her father is the great Count Julius Andrassy, onetime Foreign Secretary (1918) of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
That blunt remark, truer than most statesmen liked to have known, not only frightened the British cabinet but frightened the great house of Rothschild, whose wealth is as much in Great Britain as on the continent. Through their Paris and their London houses the Rothschilds exerted every pressure to stop the French run on British gold, to push through the Franco-U. S. credit to the Bank of England. But if Britons needed any further knowledge of their country's precarious finances it came at Westminster when on the day that Parliament adjourned the Government's Economy Commission...
...embezzlement were found in the dole administration AFTER Ford Motor Company officials cited hundreds of dole getters who were also drawing Ford pay. Additional facts are necessary to give the truth. The first and only significant embezzlement was discovered by two young bankers who became suspicious of the sudden wealth of one Alex F. Lewis, a clerk in the welfare department, who through an ingenious fraud obtained $207,000. He fooled not only the welfare administration but the Detroit Yacht Club which admitted him to membership and the Ford Motor Company, which permitted him to buy an interest...