Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endorsement, certifying to Business one's soundness as a leader, is worth much if it is unaccompanied by a substantial cash investment. This cash must not be too obvious too early, however, as in the 1920 case of Leonard Wood's Col. Proctor, the soap tycoon...
President Homer LeRoy Shantz of the University of Arizona (Tucson) found lager beer bottles in the walls of his home, sent them to the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society Museum. Helen Lee Eames, debutante stepdaughter of Henry Latham Doherty, potent oil-utility tycoon, ordered twelve Ford sport cabriolets which she will give to friends after painting silhouets on the cars "to personalize the owner's individuality." First car she embellished with horses & hounds, sent to sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain who, last year, helped rescue a school friend of Miss Eames after she had suffered an equestrian mishap...
Virginia natives were chuckling last week over a story about Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph K. Knapp (American lithographic) and some 3,800 wild ducks on their expensive Back Bay and Currituck Sound shooting preserves. The story was that Sportsmen Corey & Knapp, just to be sure of something to shoot at when they went ducking, caused expert duck raisers to hatch and raise 3,800 wild fowl. So fond of their homes did these ducks become, so fat did they grow on tycoon-bought grain, that when Sportsmen Corey, Knapp & friends appeared to do some shooting, the ducks...
...rather than Illinois Merchant executives.* Before the merger, Continental was considered an aggressively expanding bank, Illinois Merchants conservative, old-school. Banker Leavell is a quick friend-maker, "Jim" to acquaintances great and small. He lives in Lake Forest, commutes on the famed club car Deerpath with many another tycoon. He plays golf about once a year, likes riding, poker...
...alluring. Babe sees "Bearcat" Delaney in action, covets him, gets him, even marries him for a while. When the money is gone she leaves him flat, goes back to Harlem and joins the dope-peddling racket. After hours she has a high old time with "Money" Johnson, Negro gambling tycoon, then with Wayne Bald win, Manhattan socialite. She tricks all her three steadies almost simultaneously, is the cause of Baldwin's shooting Johnson, gets Bearcat to take the blame, goes to Paris with Millionaire Baldwin...