Word: plutocratism
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Booth Tarkington published a novel last year called The Plutocrat. The hero was Earl Tinker, U. S. captain of industry. Mr. Tinker's fictitious shipmates on a Mediterranean cruise included James T. Weatheright of Weatheright's Worsteds; T. H. Smith, president of the G. L. and W.; Thomas Swingey of Swingey Brothers, Inc.; Harold M. Wilson, ex-chairman of the Board of the Western Industrial Corp., etc., etc. "You almost wonder," said Earl Tinker, "how the United States can go on running with these men out here on the ocean...
...city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester and puebloed Santa Fe. Recently he has been back again in Manhattan, painting cars and trolleys, houses with lighted doors and windows, loafers, little girls playing in the streets. The paintings which he sold, through the Kraushaar Galleries, to the anonymous plutocrat, include examples of his work in all three periods...
...German playwright, Max Mohr, neglecting the scented graces at which his title hints, amuses himself by tossing medicine balls at the ugly face of a U. S. rooney glutton. His satire, which was immensely successful in Europe, is sophisticated and sentimental; it is probable that even the most hardened plutocrat who watches the unfolding of the myth will feel less shamed than delighted when the young lovers, scorning a rich villain's bribe, exit with laughter and on horseback...
They were annoyed to learn that the commission had been granted to one Natalie Hammond, young daughter of John Hays Hammond, famed engineer, plutocrat. Natalie Hammond has studied art for one or two years; has shown a watercolor painting at the London Royal Academy; has travelled largely in Eastern countries...
...PLUTOCRAT-Booth Tarking-ton-Doubleday, Page ($2). An Illinois Caesar visits Carthage...