Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monument (Yale's new library) will indeed remain through the centuries as a memorial to the character of its builders. For ages it will unmercifully reveal their soul. It will tell the story of American wealth and academic culture of the earlier twentieth century. Skyscrapers narrate only a part of the story; in a generation they must give way to others, and in their mortality lies their smallness. The Yale library will not give away, and historians, philosophers, and sight-seers in five hundred years will reconstruct the America of our day form its venerable stones...
...distance and with a hostile Dry eye Mrs. Nicholson watched Wet Mrs. Sabin's convention. When it was over she publicly challenged Mrs. Sabin to debate Prohibition with her. She said: "No one could see your meetings and not be im pressed with the number of women of wealth present. May we ask you how many of these have felt the pinch of poverty that goes with liquor or who will be the victims if the saloon, or any other place where liquor is openly dispensed, comes back? Are we not right in saying that it is not the protected...
Students. Possessed of dignity as well as wealth, Duke does not call itself the Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale or Princeton of the South. It is and means to be Duke University, second to none, with the flower of the land coming to it from all the States. The present student body, some 1,200 male undergraduates and some 1,100 students in the women's college and schools of Medicine, Nursing, Law, Religion and the Graduate School, is drawn from 40 States...
...Atlanta's aristocracy. In 1907, widowed, she married Buck Duke, who had divorced his first wife, Lillian N. McCready. Famed is Daughter Doris Duke (born 1912) who will become a trustee when she reaches her majority. Many a newspaper column has been devoted to Doris and her wealth ($53,000,000), her presentation at the Court of St. James's, her expensive debut at Newport last year (she was supposed to awaken to melodious chimes, bathe in water from an illuminated fountain, travel with a body-guard). Like many another rich Southern woman, Mrs. Duke is conservative, quiet, charming...
Concerning his reputed inheritance of wealth, Editor Brisbane told Editor Stockbridge: "My grandfather was a rich man and left to his two sons, George and Albert, my father, a large fortune which made it unnecessary for either of them to work. . . . Fortunately it had about disappeared at the time of [my father's]; death, which compelled me to go to work, which I certainly should not have done if I had inherited any considerable wealth...