Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coincidence that the other participants in Thomas Fortune Ryan's conferences were usually important men. He served few masters but he had many partners, and it is for the number and the importance of these, for the variety of his interests more than their magnitude, that Thomas Fortune Ryan was a unique figure in U. S. finance...
...financial prodigies, the organization of the American Tobacco Co., with which he gained a two-thirds interest in the foreign market, he was comparatively alone. King Leopold II asked him for help in exploiting African diamond mines; and in rooms where chandeliers sparkled dimly like uncut diamonds, Thomas Fortune Ryan sat and talked with Harry Payne Whitney, Daniel Guggenheim and John Hays Hammond, persuading them to share this spectacular venture...
Politically, Thomas Fortune Ryan was an ardent, though a self-effacing Democrat, and his death is the most notable one which has been rumored to be in part the result of Governor Smith's defeat. Like many great makers of money, he discovered, late in life, an interest in pictures. His first wife, who died in 1917, was made a Countess of the Holy Roman Empire by the Pope; in 1920 his son, Allan Ryan, cornered the stock of Stutz Motor Car Co., and was expelled from the Stock Exchange for doing so. Thomas Fortune Ryan tried several times...
...father was overseer at Oak Ridge, owned then by a Mr. Rives. Thomas Ryan, like his father, was a laborer at Oak Ridge; but when he left, he said to his employer, "I will come back to buy you out," and later...
...Mahoney Aircraft Corp. (Mahoney-Ryan) San Diego, Calif. / Ryan / Passenger & cargo / . $12,200 / Lindbergh & Spirit of St. Louis...