Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near his birthplace-Brewster Methodist Episcopal Church, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Daniel Drew Methodist Episcopal Church. Last week, still grateful to "Deacon Dan," Methodists gathered at Carmel...
Latest in the flood of statistics dealing with the health, wealth, and bedtime hours of the Freshman Class, figures released yesterday show that of the members of 1939, 277 are sons of Harvard...
...business drifting through the blue haze of Corona-Coronas, Committee of 100 meetings are not free from suspicions of babbittry. Last week the members heard Governor Scholtz extol Florida and Governor Brann extol Maine. Then, as representatives of a sizable slice of the nation's total un-redistributed wealth, they settled down to grumbling about the New Deal. Sample sentiments...
...have an unsuspected and forgotten wealth of esthetic material in our college buildings--especially in those of Colonial and Early Republican times. In it, we can enjoy and compare a bewildering variety of artistic values. Fascinating, colorful connections come to light between the buildings and their builders with the undergraduates who inhabited them, with the whole civilization that produced them and enjoyed the fruits of the institutions they housed...
This action comes as the result of agitation on the part of house members because of the wealth of tickets which they collected daily for leaving their cars in the enclosure which up till this year was free for parking. A petition was circulated, 100 men signed up, and days later a decision was finally handed down from the bureaucracy of Lehman Hall. The statement issued by Durant reads...