Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that these country places, plus the official limousines and luxuries of their owners, make the nominally small salaries of J. Stalin & Friends of no real importance, set them definitely off from Russia's masses as Mr. & Mrs. Davies are set off in the U. S. by their wealth. By a joker in the new Soviet Constitution, "The Most Democratic In The World" as Democrat Stalin's propaganda calls it (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante), many property rights have been restored to Russia's "toiling masses"-and thus to the prosperous Big Red class which today owns...
...Mordecal J. B. Ezekiel, economic adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture, will speak in Dunster House at 7 o'clock tonight. He has chosen "Government activities in creating and redistributing income and wealth" for the subject of his talk. From 8 to 8:30 o'clock will be a discussion period...
Genevieve Garvan of Hartford, Conn., comely sister of Francis Patrick Garvan (Chemical Foundation), in 1906 married Nicholas Brady, son of a family whose transit and utilities fortune at one time was among the greatest in the U. S. To them both, their wealth became a means by which to serve their Church. In 1920 a Cardinal, His Eminence Giovanni Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., dedicated "Inisfada." The Bradys, indifferent to decorators, had spent 20 years traveling the world buying furnishings for it. Tycoon Brady, who confessed his sins in his last years to a bishop, his friend...
...rare flower of U. S. wealth is Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams, better known as Mrs. Harrison Williams, "best-dressed woman in the world." Born in Kentucky some 40 summers ago, she married first Henry J. Schlesinger of Milwaukee's iron-&-coke family, then Manhattan Banker James Irving Bush, finally and most successfully Harrison Williams, 23 years her elder, a quiet specialist in utility finance. To the adornment of their three houses-on upper Fifth Avenue at Bayville, L. I., at Palm Beach-Mrs. Williams has devoted her professional knowledge of porcelains, her flair for the paler sort...
...Williams affably admitted las't week that he had "influence on the management" of North American Co., North American Light & Power, Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern Natural Gas, Detroit Edison, United Light & Power, American Water Works. After 1929 the astringent years which wiped out many a man of wealth merely shrank Mr. Williams' fortune from fabulous to big. He retained his 400-ft. yacht, the Warrior; his houses, his leisure for travels almost as continuous as those of his wife, his interest in oceanography which led him to help finance William Beebe's voyages to the Sargasso...