Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many an oldster could recall the lusty history of the Anaconda Standard- conceived in anger, nurtured in strife and extravagance; could recall how, as the personal organ of the late famed copper tycoon Marcus Daly, the Standard stood at the turn of the century among the best edited dailies...
...flung Cities Service Co., clamped shut with satisfaction last week upon a decision in the Shawnee County Court at Topeka, Kan. It was the end of the third round in the great utility championship bout between Cities Service and the State of Kansas, and the round was Tycoon Doherty's. In the first round, Banking Commissioner Carl Newcomer had suddenly suspended sales of Cities Service stock (except first preferred) in the State. In round No. 2, Mr. Doherty's lawyers got a temporary injunction staying the Newcomer order. And now the order was invalidated, by the court...
...Meantime Tycoon Doherty girded himself for the two other aspects of Cities Service's fight in Kansas: a defense against Governor Woodring's campaign to knock 10? off the Company's 40?-per-1000 cu. ft. gas rate; an attack upon the Kansas City Star, from which Tycoon Doherty is demanding $12,000,000 libel damages as the price of inspiring Governor Woodring's rate...
...content with merely expressing his opinion of the Star, Tycoon Doherty has his attorneys file a libel suit against it for $12,000,000 damages on six articles. The tenor of the challenged articles was that Mr. Doherty collects 1¾% of the gross revenue of his companies for his technical advice and management. In addition to denying this, Mr. Doherty claimed the articles had been printed to hurt his business in order that the Star's management might promote a competing pipeline. Publisher Longan retorted: "If it were true ... it would be no one's damned business...
...Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., fun-loving socialite-sportsman, more distinguished for social than commercial maneuvers. Divorced last March by Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, who was left more than $50,000,000 by her father, the late Benjamin Newton Duke, brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, Mr. Biddle three months later married Mrs. Margaret A. Schulze, daughter of the late Mining- Tycoon William Boyce Thompson whose estate was valued at $85,000,000. Most prominent of Mr. Biddle's business ventures has been the development of Manhattan's Central Park Casino...