Word: duesenbergs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lost in silent pictures, gained enough experience to make another. He always works with his writers preparing stories. Patient, diligent, tactful, he calls his actors by their first names. They call him Mr. Hawks. His wife is Norma Shearer's sister Athole. He plays good golf, drives a green Duesenberg, loses weight every time he makes a picture...
...Moons did he sell that his 5% commissions brought in about $30,000 a year, netted him $100,000 with which he bought out wobbly Auburn Automobile Co. Youngest motorcar company president in the U. S. at 30, he built up a quick fortune which he expanded by, acquiring Duesenberg and a few companies manufacturing accessories. Until he introduced the Cord Front-Drive car in 1930, his name was known to a very small portion of the public. It was about then that he bought a plane, learned to fly it, determined to make planes much cheaper than they then...
...Last week the glittering $16,500 Duesenberg purchased by the city for Mayor Walker was auctioned...
...just ''took things easily," never tried hard, never let other people know what he was trying for. He married twice. He traveled. With his own hands he tinkered with his Ford coupe and battered old Duesenberg. In February 1932 by dickering with Blyth & Co. and J. & W. Seligman, he, aged 39, got control of 520,000 of the 1,000,000 shares of Pacific Western Oil Corp...
...hours later he shook off sleuthing reporters and disappeared alone in his $17,000 nickel-trimmed Duesenberg. Somewhere about the city he met John Francis Curry, leader of Tammany Hall and John H. McCooey, Democratic boss of Brooklyn. At 10 p. m. he returned in high spirits to his Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue...