Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest question of all, of course-for the wealth of these five or seven churches is vast-is: Who shall manage the new, unified Church, and how? A special committee will try to have an acceptable answer ready by next spring...
...Cake" is a satiric fantasy about the hectic search for happiness in modern life. It deals with a woman whose seven husbands have left her wealth, but who have prevented her from getting the means to gain the experience which she seeks in the far corners of the earth. The play has never been professionally produced, but was given some time ago by the Experimental Players in Pasadena, California...
Cosden Receivership. In 1925 the most typical example of the oilman whose wells had gushed richly was Joshua S. Cosden, head of Cosden & Co. He had vast estates in Palm Beach and Long Island, entertained lavishly, followed horses as well as stocks. His wealth was estimated at $50,000,000. Surely his expenditures lent veracity to this figure. But after heavy losses in the stockmarket he lost control of Cosden & Co. which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., was reported financially down & out. Three years later his friends financed a projected comeback. He moved from Manhattan to Fort Worth, energetically entered...
...money talks, then "Smiles" easily takes the first place among the musical comedies of this year, for Mr Ziegfeld has dug deep into the family coffers to furbish his present opus with such a wealth of talent and personality as has not been seen on the Boston stage for many a year...
...most important thing of all is to be civilized. . . . The fate of a Jack Diamond is without significance in itself but the social attitude toward him is significant of much. . . . Here is a perfect illustration of the fallacy that a nation or city is civilized because it has wealth, law courts, colleges and libraries...