Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After his graduation from Yale, Irwin Laughlin took a lowly job in the ancestral steel corporation. Ten years later he resigned as secretary of the company to embrace a diplomatic career. One of the wealthiest of the necessarily moneyed diplomatic corps, he began as a humble secretary, advanced by ability as much as influence. During his 23-year diplomatic ascendancy he served in Athens, Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, London, Berlin. Golf he plays, but prefers to collect art, read, dine elegantly. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 1926 he has lived in a big stone house...
...wealthiest, most business-like nation, are a majority of the world's outstanding businessmen. Their leader, by implication, is leader among businessmen of the world. Last week at the Harvard Business School more than 200 students, from 27 states and three foreign countries, chose Owen D. Young, board chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, chairman of the second Reparations Conference, as "the one outstanding American businessman...
...father, the late, mighty Chang Tso-lin (TIME, July 2, 1928). Both went to marshal armies against further trouble for both knew that seizure of the C. E. R. was open signal to a battle by which they hoped to crush the Russian domination of China's wealthiest region...
...know, the presence of a large number written by his sister, Betty Washington Lewis, makes it very possible that a new light will be thrown on Washington's business transactions and private life." The famous historian settled back in his chair and continued. "You know Washington was the wealthiest man in America in his day. He was a shrewd business man, an analytic bookkeeper, and the most consistent buyer of real estate in the country. During the Revolutionary War, when his brother-in-law. Fielding Lewis, went bankrupt making guns for the Continental Army, Washington stayed prosperous because...
...there was talk of Jeritza's coming to the U. S. Otto Kahn had heard her in Europe. So had Mr. Gatti. But then came the War. Vienna stayed German and the Metropolitan Opera went Italian. Jeritza was married-to Baron Leopold Popper de Podraghy,* one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned soldier for his Emperor. She herself sang at the front, worked in a hospital. Not until the fall of 1921 did she come to the Metropolitan...