Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME is so vital, so alive, so circumspect in selecting the right word that I grieve at your continued use of the obsolete term Tycoon. Why not replace it with Big Shot? Everyone knows what Big Shot means. It is more than slang-it is part of the American language. It would fit in with your telling and picturesque phrases. And even the Big Shots rather thrill at the term Big Shot. E. G. KYTE...
TIME has promised to abandon Tycoon when a better word is found. Big Shot is the best substitute yet offered. But it is not good enough.-ED. Keen-Edged Puukko Knife...
...famed Wilshire Boulevard was named after Magnetic-beltman Wilshire in honor to him for his wonderful invention. It was not. Wilshire Boulevard was named after Subdivider Wilshire, the same person, to be sure, but at a date about 25 years previous to his fame as a magnetic-belt tycoon...
Last spring Philip Fox* ("Phil") La Follette, 33, Republican Progressive, brought a court action against Wisconsin's Governor Walter Jodok Kohler ("of Kohler," plumbing tycoon), Republican stalwart, to oust him for excessive campaign expenditures. The action failed (TIME, May 26). Last week Philip La Follette successfully disposed of Governor Kohler in another way when he defeated him in the Republican primary for the gubernatorial nomination by 120,000 votes. With the nomination equivalent to election "Phil" La Follette will enter the Madison State House just 30 years after his late great father, Robert Marion ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, to carry...
Storm Over Asia (Amkino). A Mongol hunter, mulcted out of a silver fox skin by a Russian fur tycoon, runs amok and flees for his life. In the mountains he encounters kinsmen embattled against the White army and joins them. He is captured, shot, left to die, then nursed back to life when an amulet which accident brought him convinces the White general that he is progeny of great Genghis Khan. The wily White general sets him up as a puppet ruler to insure peace amongst the surly Mongols, but the hunter, confused and bewildered at first, suddenly discerns...