Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a 23-day barrage of political evidence a jury at Sheboygan. Wis. last week refused to believe that their Governor, Walter Jodok Kohler. plumbing tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler"). had violated the Corrupt Practice Act in winning his high office in 1928 (TIME. May 5). The Act limits campaign expenditures to $4,000. The state's prosecutors failed to prove their charge that Governor Kohler had spent $100,000 politically through his plumbing plant and the campaign activities of his employes...
...presented at the Royal Court his daughter Charlotte. President Edward William Edwards (bottles) sent his Eleanore, President A. Atwater Kent (radio) his Elizabeth. But in her own right came Miss Doris Duke, greatest heiress of the nation where most money is, daughter of the late, international tobacco tycoon James B. Duke, plain, wholesome, sweet eighteen...
Warmly, without a trace of sour grapes or jealousy, Grocer Habsburg goes on to praise the self made Tea Tycoon: "Just how his personality could break down all barriers was shown at a dinner party, given during Kiel Regatta shortly before the great war by Kaiser Wilhelm II, aboard his imperial yacht to Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The Kaiser was in a bad humor and inclined to be coldly polite. Mr. Morgan, sensing the frigidity, became frigid too. But not so the genial Sir Thomas! His joviality and high spirits soon thawed everything and everybody, most...
Sued for divorce. By Julia Tiffany Parker, 'twin granddaughter of the late jewelry tycoon Charles Lewis Tiffany: Gurdon S. Parker, Manhattan architect; at Reno...
Bethlehem's destiny as a musical centre might have been thwarted when Steel intervened. Instead, no less a tycoon than Charles Michael Schwab boosted it and it was an outgrowth of the same Moravian choir which, more than 100 years later, gave the first complete U. S. performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's supreme Mass in B Minor. Now Bethlehem is as much Bach's as Steel...