Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blonde, brassy the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, ardent admirer of Führer Adolf Hitler, and 23-year-old daughter of England's pro-German insurance tycoon Lord Redesdale, has a failing for flaunting her swastika pin where it causes trouble. Two months ago she boldly barged into a Hyde Park meeting for supporters of Leftist Spain wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation...
...Last week, resourceful Robert Young made inroads into two other operating companies. He himself was chosen chairman of New York. Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate); and one of his close associates, Cleveland Shipping Tycoon George A. Tomlinson, was elected chairman of 1'ere Marquette...
...Oxford, England, nervous, bull-necked Viscount Nuffield, 60, Great Britain's No. 1 motor tycoon and Oxford University's No. 1 donor, was working overtime, when police arrested a man who they charged had come to his office to kidnap him. When Nuffield heard what happened, he ran to tell someone the news, burst in on some employes practicing for a band concert, cried: "Well, boys, what do you think of it? Two men have just tried to kidnap...
...Although Andrew Carnegie Whitfield, whose father is Mrs. Andrew Carnegie's brother, is related to the late great steel tycoon by marriage only, he bears the distinction of being the only close relative, blood or by marriage, to be named after Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie had only one child, Margaret, who married Roswell Miller, civil engineer. They have three daughters, one son, Roswell III. Only other close Carnegie kin still alive are two grandnephews, Carter and Thomas Morrison Carnegie Jr.. sons of Andrew's late brother...
...controlled by Chesapeake Corp., a holding company which owns 35% of its common stock. Chesapeake Corp. in turn is controlled by Alleghany Corp., another holding company which owns 71% of its stock. Last year, after the Vans had died, the chief backer of their declining years, Glass Tycoon George A. Ball, sold 46% of Alleghany Corp.'s common stock along with some real estate to a trio of virtual unknowns for $6,375,000 ($4,000,000 in cash, rest in notes). This trio consisted of two Wall Streeters. Robert Ralph Young and Frank Frederick Kolbe, and Allan Price...