Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a contract giving him the New England territory for the Packard car. As the Packard car prospered, as more and more motorists began to "Ask the Man Who Owns One," Alvan Tufts Fuller prospered also. Today he is rumored to be worth 40 million dollars; is considered the wealthiest of Massachusetts citizens. None of the Governor's fortune, however, has resulted from his career in public life. As a member of the Massachusetts State Legislature, of the U. S. House of Representatives, as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, and as Governor of Massachusetts, he has returned, uncashed, all salary...
Proportionate to the wealth of the U. S. and that of Japan, John Pierpont Morgan has been reputed comparatively less rich than Mme. Yone Suzuki, 73, "the wealthiest woman in Japan." Awful was the catastrophe last week when this frail, slim lady, garbed as always in the mode of old Nippon, announced briefly that the liabilities of Suzuki & Co. total one quarter of a billion dollars, and that the firm will temporarily suspend payment on certain of its obligations. The ensuing crash on the Tokyo bourse was similar to what might be expected in Wall Street should J. P. Morgan...
Died. David Septillu, aged "Reindeer King," wealthiest Alaskan Eskimo; on ice-locked St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, A rescue plane made repeated attempts to get through a blizzard in order to carry him to surgical aid, and medical instructions were radioed every hour to his nurse, from Nome...
Asked concerning the possibilities of the broadcasting of moving pictures through space, Professor Chaffee said, "Anything that can be sent over wire can be broadcasted on the radio. It is improbable, but highly conceivable, that in a decade or two, some of the wealthiest people of the country will view motion pictures in their own living rooms. However, the expense of the apparatus will exclude most of the population from this luxury
...suit is the climax of a long-standing antipathy between the two wealthiest men in U. S. political life. One of course, is Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, aluminum potentate and banker. The other is that onetime coal-yard-worker, James Couzens, who is now Senator from Michigan. They have been at swords' points ever since 1924 when Senator Couzens expressed hearty disapproval of Secretary Mellon's tax reduction program. A year later, Senator Couzens began poking into the affairs of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, made public a report, charged the Treasury Department with laxity...