Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week. Requests for a veto continued to flow in. Henry Ford stayed overnight with President Hoover to repeat his belief that the bill was "an economic stupidity." Albert Henry Wiggin, head of the Chase National Bank of New York, conferred long and solemnly at and after luncheon. Many another tycoon flayed the measure in public or prepared to protest when (or if) the bill should come formally before the President...
...years older (he is now 33). At election times they are busy baby-kissers. And all the time they are busy spending where it will do the most political good the income from millions left to Lady Mosley by her grandfather, the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Last week Sir Oswald saw and fairly snapped up a chance to seize leadership of the disaffected, "pure Socialist" left wing of the Labor Party...
...Tycoon, Clifford D. Mallory's 12-metre sailing yacht: a 19-mile race from William Vincent Astor's Iris in the opening regatta of the Long Island Sound championships...
Engaged. Barron G. Collier Jr., Yale senior, son of the car-card and billboard advertising tycoon; and Miss Helen E. M. Greef, of Manhattan, Smith sophomore...
Resigned. Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 51, Cleveland railroad tycoon, from all executive positions with railroads, except one directorship (Missouri Pacific...