Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, as a final witness, Ways & Means Chairman Hawley put on the stand Owen D. Young, confident that that tycoon would merely reiterate the business world's objections to any form of certificate payments at this time. But Mr. Young did not perform as expected. Like his banking friends, he did oppose a big bond issue to pay off the Bonus on the grounds that: 1) such an issue probably could not be sold; 2) savings necessary for business recovery would be absorbed otherwise; 3) "we should end worse off than we began." Unlike his associates, however, Democrat Young favored...
...single, but Shore's Carolina Jack was still in it. A wonderful last day might put him in the finals; otherwise the national field championship would be between Mary Blue, champion in 1929, and Yankee Doodle Jack. Mary Blue, white & liver pointer bitch owned by Standard Oil Tycoon Walter Teagle, froze to a point, tail raised high: a bevy of quail slanted into the air. Again and again she pointed, covered ground tirelessly, made only one mistake. Judges gave her the title, with Yankee Doodle Jack second...
...Sound Lines." George Fisher Baker, 91-year-old banking, telephone and steel tycoon, insists that bankers "talk too much," yet last week he was quoted as uttering bullish things. What actually happened...
...sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt the need of some change. When lovely Ann Moon. Frisby's niece, came over...
...time in sizing up the situation. Father Spalding suggested that his son forego subsidized concerts, start barnstorming, play in small towns for small fees. Through Russia, at 22, Albert traveled second and third class, playing one-night stands. No one knew he was the son of a sporting goods tycoon. His manager was a shyster and pocketed all the receipts. But Spalding made a name for himself, lived down his comfortable background. Today no U. S. musician has greater honor in his own country and in Europe than. Violinist Spalding. Recently in Europe he gave 50 concerts with unusual success...