Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invitation of Chicago's Cardinal Mundelein who wanted his guests at the 1926 Eucharistic Congress to see it. After the Congress, Dr. Vollbehr took his books on the road, showed them in many U. S. cities with great pomp & circumstance, hoped to sell them to a college or tycoon...
After he was graduated from Amherst in 1879, Tycoon Folger divided his time between writing treatises on petroleum and monographs on Shakespeare, and making more money to buy more early Shakespeare editions. His hobby he shared with his wife. Together they amassed 25,000 rare volumes of the works of Elizabethan dramatists. Until his death the precise worth of this collection, now stored in Manhattan, was intentionally kept vague so that his reputation as a collector would not handicap him in making purchases...
...immediately faced with a large U. S. cigaret advertisement. In the last century Phineas Taylor Barnum tried to buy his birthplace. Retired Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney professes to admire his works above those of all other authors. Last week, by the will of a retired tycoon -Henry Clay Folger, onetime (1911-23) president of Standard Oil Co. of New York-the U. S. acquired a collection of the works of William Shakespeare "not even surpassed by the British Museum," also an imposing museum for it in Washington, D. C., near the national Capitol, also...
Died. Harry C. Stutz, 53, pioneer racing and pleasure-car tycoon; of complications following an appendectomy; at Indianapolis. Native of Ansonia, Ohio, he began his career in a Dayton machine shop, later sold Schebler carburetors, ran the Marion motor factory, designed the (long-since defunct) American car, built Stutz Motor Car Co. (with Henry Campbell) out of a motor parts company he founded in 1910, selling out in 1919. He and Campbell founded H. C. S. Co., last year rumored to be planning a merger with Commercial...
Harry Ford Sinclair, petroleum tycoon was last week reported as about to acquire Richfield Oil Co. of California. The rumor was not denied or affirmed at Sinclair offices, but it was conceded that Bancamerica-Blair, Sinclair bankers, held a large block of Richfield stock. Richfield is fourth largest oil distributor in California (leaders are Standard of California, Union Oil and Shell Oil), would supply Sinclair with desirable California distribution...