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...rally from a blood transfusion; in London. Born of a British middle-class family, he studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought himself a yacht, moved in and wrote of high society. But his greatest works were the earlier simple, realistic chronicles of his native Staffordshire: the "Five Towns" novels...
Simultaneously in two courts, New York's most colorful and wealthiest alleged racketeer-long, loose-jointed, big-mouthed Larry Fay, indicted a year ago for collecting "dues" from milk dealers (TIME, Oct. 29, 1929)-came into renewed prominence. He was not at either session in person. The Appellate Division, investigating corrupt city magistrates (TIME, Aug. 25), heard tell of a little black notebook in which Fay once kept useful telephone numbers. Hearings on milk rackets more recent than that for which Fay was indicted chanced upon evidence that he may be still the milk gangs' overlord. But observers...
...Congress: He is known as an independent voter, a violent partisan, a dogged fighter, the Senate's wealthiest member. He is most famed for his fiscal feud with Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon. He did not like the 1924 tax bill, wrote the Secretary so, was infuriated by a snippy reply from a Department subordinate. He put through the Senate a resolution to investigate the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This Bureau retaliated by reopening an old tax case against him and all minority Ford stockholders who had sold their shares. The Bureau charged the Senator owed...
Last week the University of Michigan's law school became, in the opinion of its officials, "the wealthiest the world has ever known." The will of William Wilson Cook -Michigan Law graduate (1882), onetime general counsel for Postal Telegraph & Cable Co.-who died at Rye, N. Y., fortnight ago, had endowed the institution with over...
...birthday. First, 50 friends gave him a dinner, and $5,000 in gold. Second, he had just engineered for his museum the largest exhibition of Rembrandts ever assembled in the U. S. There were 78 paintings, ten of them owned in Detroit, many loaned by the nation's wealthiest private collectors -John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Friedsam, Charles M. Schwab, Jules Semon Bache, et al. Of another event-of-the-week Director Valentiner was prouder still. He was able to announce that, thanks to his own astute connoisseurship, his Detroit Institute of Art had acquired a genuine Titian, the golden...