Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Dr. Braun will be able to muster 162 seats when the Diet convenes in June. Thus his coalition strength would exactly equal the strength of the Fascist Party alone. But Adolf Hitler can probably count on the support of "The Little Man In Blue," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. newspaper tycoon and Nationalist leader. A Hitler-Hugenberg-Splinter-party coalition would muster 203 seats, only nine short of a majority in the Diet...
...bored by her art and her existence. Conveniently near, so that he can filch her pearls, is an attractive and impoverished Baron (John Barrymore). In a corridor, the Baron makes friends with a pretty stenographer (Joan Crawford). She is waiting to take dictation from a disagreeable textile tycoon (Wallace Beery). The tycoon, named Preysing, is so engrossed in dishonest tricks to escape financial ruin that he fails to recognize one of his own clerks. The clerk (Lionel Barrymore) is incurably ill; he has come to the hotel to finish his last days in one burst of unaccustomed luxury. Also...
...world-cruiser Empress of Britain which returned to Manhattan last week carrying 95 widows and 336 other passengers. Notables: June, famed London actress, divorced wife of Lord Inverclyde, who boarded ship at San Francisco as did her onetime friend Woolf Barnato (son of the late South African Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato) with his bride...
Died. Joseph Leiter, 63, capitalist, sportsman, famed wheat speculator; of pneumonia; in Chicago. Son of the late Tycoon Levi Zeigler Leiter (cofounder of Chicago's Marshall Field & Co.), at 29 he blazed upon the financial skies when, with $1,000,000 given him by his father as a graduation present, he cornered the wheat market, only to lose everything- including a paper profit of some $7,000,000 and $12,000,000 of his father's fortune-after being "double crossed" by some of his associates in the pit. In 1923 his sister, the Countess of Suffolk...
Editor George Horace Lorimer of Saturday Evening Post was able to lead off his April 2 issue with an up-to-the-moment article?a "last talk" with the late Ivar Kreuger, recorded by his good friend & admirer, Isaac Frederick Marcosson, able tycoon interviewer. Although the "last talk" was an innocuous compendium of Herr Kreuger's views on international finance, its publication indirectly certified the aura of greatness surrounding the matchmaker and moneylender who had shot himself (TIME, March...