Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steelman Schwab was optimistic last week - he predicted the early advent of "a larger measure of prosperity than the American people have ever known before" - so was many another tycoon throughout the land. At the same meeting at which Mr. Schwab said, ''We're having beer now but when summer comes we're going to have champagne," James Augustine Farrell, trim and stocky little president of U. S. Steel, declared: "We have in our hands the power to restore the steel industry to prosperity in 60 days. . . . This is no time to pinch off a penny...
...Crusaders or similar organizations one-tenth of what he spends each year for liquor, Prohibition would soon be ended." In Cleveland there was earnest talk of raising immediately $200,000, the city's share in a prospective $10,000,000 national fund. In Detroit, Henry Bourne Joy, Packard tycoon, cried: "I pray our President may soon recommend that the Federal Government cease to encroach upon the responsibilities of the States...
...Struck the First Blow," is scheduled for November.) Besides four stories and eight bits of verse there were 16 special features, among them an "exposé" of U. S. rule in the Virgin Islands; an account of primitive African musical instruments; a success biography of Samuel Winningham, watermelon tycoon; notes upon Alexandre Dumas, pére (he was a quadroon) and Ignatius Sancho, "the forgotten man of letters"; an argument against birth control with detailed objections to contraceptives; a debate, "Is It Possible for the Church to Serve the Modern Youth?" Jokes were also included. Sample: Big Congo Chief-"Waiter...
...stockmarketeer may rightly be called a tycoon only when his operations directly and continuously affect the affairs of a great corporation. This rarely occurs. Bishop Cannon's operations are in no sense tycoonish...
...Tycoon Eastman's public gifts all have had a peculiarly personal touch. For example, the London dental dispensary was the result of Mr. Eastman and Dr. Burkhart talking with Sir Albert Levy, English tobacconist, and Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaperman. Signor Giacomo De Martini. Italian Ambassador at Washington, and Professor Amadeo Perna, foremost Italian dentist and a deputy in the Italian Parliament, interested the Rochester man in the needs of Romans. Two years ago two sons of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prince Sigvard, visited Mr. Eastman in Rochester. A few months later...