Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest per capita wealth...
Last year, when the New Deal's appeal to "the underprivileged" was at its most ominous for people of "entrenched wealth," the First National Bank in Reno and the Nevada State Journal set out to promote Nevada as a sort of financial cyclone cellar. To a pedigreed list of 10,000 prospects they sent out a booklet in which the bank's former president, Governor Richard Kirman Sr.* presented to people of wealth sound fiscal reasons why they should become Nevada residents. Attorney General Gray Mashburn explained the simple legal steps required. And the booklet emphasized that "Nevada...
...social register), The People, Passing Show, and John Bull. Editor-in-chief of every organ put out by Odhams is John Dunbar, a Scot with a rich brogue. Elias, who has never written a newspaper story in his life, is the firm's financial spearhead. His wealth is impossible to gauge for he never publishes a financial statement. Odhams ranks so high, however, that when Elias put out a big bond issue last year is was oversubscribed in five minutes...
...Navy at Annapolis tonight. Harvard, tied with Yale, Is in the League lead with an undefeated team, while the sallors are in last place and can't boast of a single win over an E.I.S.L. opponent. They are not likely to start tonight for the Crimson team has a wealth of material, and only the Yale bugaboo stands between them and the championship...
...content with third-rate military machines, the dictators, with their limited resources, could still surpass them and make a good pretense at ruling the world. With the recent awakening of Great Britain the situation has shifted, and that empire has shown that it is willing to use its unparalleled wealth to protect its challenged interests...