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...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...
Trinity Church Corporation, with a main edifice at the head of Wall St., Manhattan, "wealthiest church in America," published its 1923 financial statement. Some items...
Leagues,--unions,--associations appear to control the destiny of everyone from the wealthiest plumber to the most brow-beaten President. So one is not surprised to find the Liberal Clubs of the world banded together in a Forum for self-defense and effectiveness. Furthermore, their coming "Symposium" is another of the "conferences" which grow more and more popular--where everyone brings forth his grievance and draws comfort from the troubles of the rest...
...French occupation of Germany's wealthiest mining and industrial district is perfectly consistent with what from the beginning has been French opinion respecting the best way of securing reparations from Germany. At the time of the peace conference France showed herself vastly more interested than the other allied countries in securing some measure of control over Germany's political and economic activities. So far as reparations were concerned, the French attitude showed itself in demands for "sanctions" and "guarantees" of one kind and another. France's allies, for the most part, would have preferred to give Germany a larger freedom...
...opinions of the colleges had not been fairly represented by the so-called "pacifist delegates," and that the vote taken at the University in favor of universal training was the result of "individual feeling and common sense." "The way to end war," he said, "is not for the wealthiest and worst organized country in the world to lay itself open to attack." Coolidge also stated that he considered it far more advisable to provide for a training term of two months in four years instead of six months in one year. In that case the stores and business concerns could...