Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Couzens of Michigan, who, for all his wealth, likes to attack millionaires. He is against railroad mergers. Third Party advocates want him to finance the cause...
...under more fitting circumstances than she had been able to in the modest Sheridan Road flat she has occupied (though with pride and dignity) for almost four years. To Inventor Dubbs, who has been living quietly on his Universal Oil Products salary and dividends at Wilmette, III. it meant wealth on which he may take his first vacation in 20 years and by which he may give his three children future advantages. That he will not spend it lavishly is indicated by his only hobbies: listening to his violinist wife and playing Canfield...
Under the expert leadership of Captain E. T. Gerry '31 the University polo team defeated the Westwood Country Club $1-2 to 5 Saturday night in the Common-wealth Armory. It was the opening game of the season for the Crimson team. In a preliminary game the Harvard Freshmen succeeded in downing the Cossacks by a score...
...Next day Senator George William Norris took the opportunity to sermonize on the unequal distribution of wealth. Said he: "I read with great interest about the Doherty ball given here while across the street they were feeding the hungry. I don't see how they had the heart to do it." Allan Hoover's favorite orchestra was at the Doherty party, but he went that night to a smaller affair (250 guests) given by Governor of the Federal Reserve Board & Mrs. Eugene Meyer Jr. for their daughter Elizabeth. It was a post-debut celebration (Debutante Meyer came...
Harvey G. Woodward made a fortune in Birmingham and Manhattan real estate and in his family's Woodward Iron Co. Bluff, hearty, he scorned any show of wealth, frequently wore khaki trousers, woolen shirts. In life he made known his views on education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment...