Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bonds. Next he turned up in the tangled affairs of Harley Clarke's Pusco [Public Utilities Securities Corp.), brought a receivership suit against the company, tried to keep RFC from voting Pusco stock which it had acquired as collateral for an unpaid loan. Says this 40-year-old bachelor: "I'm just a natural scrapper...
...Planetarium bears the name of Merchant Max Adler (Sears, Roebuck), Philadelphia's that of Soapmaker Samuel S. Fels (Fels-Naptha), Los Angeles' that of the late Griffith Jennings Griffith, rich pioneer settler. The planetarium opened with suitable pomp in Manhattan last week is named for clapper Bachelor-Banker Charles Hayden, 65, director of some 70 corporations...
...bonds in return for a loan, to be paid off by millions of 25? admissions. But the RFC would not advance funds for a foreign-bought instrument. That problem was solved, to Mr. Davison's surprise and delight, when he was handed a check for $150,000 by Bachelor-Banker Hayden, who had been religiously stirred by a planetarium performance in Chicago (TIME...
...dissatisfied young man was Howard Hughes, 30-year-old bachelor, nephew of Author Rupert Hughes. A pilot since he was 14, this ultra-rich young oilman and cinema producer first burst over the horizon of national attention when he produced Hell's Angels (TIME, June 9, 1930). Other cinema successes followed, but by 1932 Director Hughes had tired of Hollywood, turned back to aviation as a prime interest. Hiding under a pseudonym, he got a job as transport pilot for American Airways, managed to make one cross-country flight before officials discovered his identity. Next Pilot Hughes took...
Fred Astaire plays the part of a misunderstood and much abused bachelor whom the decorative Ginger Rogers mistakes for the husband of a friend. However the plot, such as it is, is unimportant, except as it provides opportunity for clever farcical dialogue and terpsichorean wooing by Fred Astaire...