Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Osages struck oil, royalties were not paid to individual Indian land owners, but were received communally and distributed, equally, to the "headrights." Some of the tribesmen took legal steps to be declared competent and proceeded to have a hilarious time with the new wealth. The incompetent Osages are now most competent, for they have cash reserves in Washington and their incomes are stable, amounting to $1,000 per quarter-year, with special cash dispensations for special needs. The competent Osages are now, with a few fine exceptions, busted, except for meagre funds that filter in from...
Sued for divorce in Trenton, N. J. last week was President Peter C. Christensen of Button Corp. of America, his wife charging that he had lavished a small fortune on a blonde artists' model, asking $1,000 per week alimony. Given this new idea of his wealth, Mr. Christensen's 400 employes promptly decided that he could afford to pay them better wages, walked out on strike. Up in a big black limousine drove Mrs. Christensen to cheer on the strikers, march for an hour in their picket line. Said Mr. Christensen, peering from behind his office curtains...
...legged, pleasure-loving Edward Rowland Robinson Green died at the Lake Placid Club last June at 67, his wealth estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000. He was the son of Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman-the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street" who used to shuttle between Brooklyn and Hoboken to avoid establishing residence and paying taxes while she was making millions in the stockmarket. Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting...
...sodas, slips under the rail of a transatlantic liner's boat deck, bellywhops down into the icy waters of the Newfoundland fishing banks. Awaking in the fo'c'sle of a Gloucester fishing schooner, Harvey discovers he is in a world where the mysterious emollient of wealth fails to lay a calming film on the stern civilization aboard ship, to say nothing of the waters churning overside. Skipper Disko (Lionel Barrymore) of the We're Here signs Harvey on as a member of his crew at $3 a month, explaining that he cannot put back into...
...personal newsorgan Der Angriff, learned Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister for Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, last week taxed "twelve American billionaires" with owning or controlling two-thirds of the U. S. national wealth, referred to more equitable times "when it was in the hands of 1,200 millionaires...