Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full of stories about the great days of the silver rush at Virginia City; of how he had drunk and gambled away his takings; about how his partner, Billy Clark, had been more sensible, saved his metal, gone into politics, retired as one of the country's wealthiest men with money to burn "down East" on rich living, art and suchlike...
...Established in 1841 as the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. It is the wealthiest Baptist congregation in the world. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is honorary president of its Bible Class, of which Charles Evans Hughes was once leader. Dr. William Herbert Perry Faunce, President of Brown University, founded the class. (Both Hughes and Rockefeller attended Brown. Hughes' son went to Brown [1909], but Rockefeller's eldest son is at Princeton...
Bishop Charles W. Nibley, multimillionaire, the wealthiest Mormon in the world. It had been anticipated that Rudger Clawson, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, might be made Counsellor. In that event, Reed Smoot, ranking Apostle, would have been made President of the Quorum, would thus have been in direct line to the succession as President of the Mormon Church. But the spiritual duties of being President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles would have required Apostle Smoot to give up the time which he now devotes to being senior U. S. Senator from Utah...
...disallowed because, at the time of the invention, naval officers were not allowed to sell inventions to the State. Admiral Kerr pleaded that the Dowager Marchioness was in greatly reduced circumstances?a fact considered extraordinary, as her second son, Lord Louis Mountbatten, is married to Britain's wealthiest girl, the former Edwina Ashley, who is said to have inherited $30,000,000 from her grandfather, Sir Ernest Cassel...
...company" under the title "Blenheim Estate Co." The Duke will be the hereditary governing director with a controlling share of the stock. The other stockholder is Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, the Duke's second son. The Duke, whose first wife was Consuelo Vanderbilt, and who is one of the wealthiest peers of the realm, took this step to escape the crushing taxation which is levied upon private fortunes. The capital of the Company is about...