Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose Colorado's Senator Phipps, no candidate for reelection, a man of wealth and generosity. Said...
...Rome made three wars against Carthage, the first two between 264-241 B.C. and 218-201 B.C. When Rome threatened a third war, Carthage asked for an embassy to consider future peace. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.), Roman Censor, was one of the deputies. Carthage's wealth and splendor made him fear for Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding...
...West, among them Minnesota, Stanford. Then lusty young Cornell seemed to be eclipsing Harvard, Yale. Cornell students came from all over the world to sit at the feet of James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, many another great one. Cornell scientists won international fame. Cornell coffers overflowed with the wealth of Hiram Sibley, Henry W. Sage. To Cornell Willard Fiske gave books, money, a building for a splendid library. Cornell teams were invincible. Year after year Cornell crews swept the river at Poughkeepsie. Then it was no slur to be called "Cornell of the West." Into the 20th Century, under able...
Union Pacific (whose wealth, already notable among U. S. railroads, was revealed in its annual report as distributed among other railroads thus: $24,807,000 in New York Central stock; $8,073,000 in B. & O.; $4,420,000 in Chicago & Northwestern common; $31,725,000 in Illinois Central stock, and its subsidiary, Railroad Securities Co.; $12,972,000 in Illinois Central stocks...
Aware of the Parlin vista, aware also that more wealth reposes in Manhattan than anywhere else in the U. S., the aviation industry last week arrayed itself as never before in the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce's first New York show...