Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last summer, "he could throw a scandal that would make vicuña coats look tawdry." Last week Franco decided he had to afford it. A mass police roundup hit Spain, and this time the victims were not radical opponents, but some of the nation's biggest and richest names-bankers, industrialists, Cabinet ministers, even members of Franco's own family. Though details were carefully concealed from the public, the roundup was the climax of the most sensational financial scandal in the history of the regime. The crime common to all: setting up secret accounts overseas, mounting...
...rate of 57 pesetas to the dollar compared to the official rate of 42. But Franco seemed to be playing no favorites. Among those caught were such men as the powerful Conde de Arteche, chairman of the Banco de Bilbao, and Juan March, one of the world's richest men. Also involved were Franco-sponsored organizations, such as the giant Institute Nacional de Industria, which controls everything from airlines to steel mills...
...Passion play,* to be presented on the following Easter. The choices are almost too shrewd. Mary Magdalen is the village whore. Judas is a well-known hell raiser and general bad lot. St. Peter is the village postman. St. John is the gentle, warmhearted son of the richest man in town. Christ is a shepherd, a stammering and shy man, pure and natural in character but illiterate and naive...
...call on Liberia's three-term President William V. S. Tubman, hoping to get Liberia's support. But that old pol was not eager to join such vigorous upstarts. He called federation "unrealistic and Utopian." The leaders of the British colony of Nigeria, one of the richest and largest (pop. 35 million) territories on the Guinea coast, make no secret of their irritation at Nkrumah's ambitions. "Nkrumah." Federal Prime Minister Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa said recently, "cannot expect the rest of Africa to dance around...
Considering what he was up against, it is no reflection on director Otto Ashermann that he was unable to create the paradoxical air of consistent and genuine artificiality that this sort of comedy demands. Dee French as the richest woman in the world and Judy O'Keeffe as her ward, Felicity, comes close to catching the requisite style. The rest of the actors make it clear that in its casting, as in its choice of plays, the Poets' Theatre must perforce be content to do what it can and not what it might wish...