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Next day U. S. Minister Bert Fish, one of northeastern Florida's wealthiest men, handsomely backed the Egyptians with many a mention of President Roosevelt's "good-neighbor policy." Declared Minister Fish: "The U. S. will pursue no exclusively national interest. . . . We warmly compliment Egypt on beginning her international career by choosing the way of friendly negotiation...
...basis of the plot is found in the threats and subsequent murders of all but one member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Joseph Calleia gets his oar in, but he is a friendly back-stabber this time. The solution to the mystery comes with the exposure in a most unconvincing manner of the least suspected person as the murderer. The program is worth taking in, however, because the feature picture is well acted and well photographed...
Since 1933, Britain's dusty little Saturday Review was published by the country's reputedly wealthiest woman. Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon. Lady Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who she believed were plotting to sell out the British nation to the Bolsheviks. A plump, imperious person, voluble to an epic degree, Lady Houston died last month, her age, which she had kept secret, probably 65 to 70. Since no will...
Journalistically the story was that of Cinderella reversed. A Crown Princess whose reigning mother is probably Europe's wealthiest woman was about to take as her Prince Consort a pleasant young German of excellent but impecunious family who might well be called Prince Cinderellus. From the moment of his marriage, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld receives a Civil List from the Dutch Treasury of 200,000 florins yearly...
...complimentary, Edwardian sense of "lady-killing") than any other man in China's swift, hard, cheap, international Shanghai-Peiping set. On being invited some years ago to a party in Peking for an appetizing blonde who had arrived bearing an introduction which she said was signed by the wealthiest U. S. newspaper publisher, Mr. Donald in his courtly way observed, "I must really decline, I am afraid. That kind scratches and bites...