Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happier would be the life of any President if custom did not require him to act as No. 1 Greeter of the nation. Last week President Hoover received, among many another: 1) Ivar Kreuger, Swedish match tycoon; 2) The Earl of Derby here for the Kentucky race; 3) U. S. Circuit Court Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor...
Walter Percy Chrysler Jr., Dartmouth freshman, son of the motor tycoon, put forth with friends last week The Five Arts ($5 for the first three issues), a magazine bound like a book, superior in typography to any other U. S. undergraduate publication, illustrated with photographs of drawings and sculpture by Dartmouth men. Said the undergraduate daily Dartmouth: "Definitely better than one's best expectations. . . . The . . . project will have to step carefully to avoid the . . . error of being too consciously arty...
Hungary. "Money, money! Give me money, Papa Zukor!" screamed a coarse-faced peasant woman in the village of Ricse last week, thrusting up a hand that half begged, half threatened at Cinema Tycoon Adolph Zukor, who with Mrs. Zukor was revisiting his Hungarian birthplace...
Birthday. Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, tea tycoon, yachtsman. Age: 80. Date: May 10. Celebration: grooming his Shamrock V for the America's Cup races off Newport, R. I., Sept...
Born. To Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson, Daughter Joan of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney, sister of Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney; a daughter...