Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will become a securities corporation, financing industrial undertaking. Although the means are unusual, the result will be the first introduction of U. S. banking structure to Italy. Vice president of each section will be Alberto Pirelli, onetime president of the International Chamber of Commerce and a prominent Italian utility tycoon...
Awarded. To Camera Tycoon George Eastman; the Medal of the American Institute of Chemists; for "Noteworthy and Outstanding Service to the Science of Chemistry and the Profession of Chemistry in America...
Most people viewed Mr. Hughes's corporation practice with equanimity, begrudged him none of his "real money." Not so Henry Latham Doherty, oil and public utility tycoon, head of Potent Cities Service Corp., who spoke out against Mr. Hughes's nomination. Wrote he: "No Justice of the Supreme Court should capitalize into wealth the prestige and influence acquired. ... He should neither expect nor receive appointment to the position of Chief Justice. . . . There are rumors afloat that a huge and uncontrollable political machine has been built up whereby governmental control will be lodged in the hands...
Because he was a Republican stalwart, because he was a millionaire friendly with other millionaires, Wisconsin Progressives have been hounding Governor Walter Jodok Kohler, plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler"), ever since he took office last year. It is charged that his 1928 election cost him and his friends $100,000 and was thereby a violation of the State's Corrupt Practices Act (legal campaign expenditure limit: $4,000). Chief hounder: able Philip La Follette, brother of able Senator Robert Marion La Follette, who, with others, instituted court action for the Governor's removal. The Kohler defense...
...Young Turkish" government he was worth $1,500,000,000, was generally considered Richest Man in the World. Last week the Greek government agreed to pay $50,000,000 to nine of his widows, 13 of his children. Not only the heirs but many a U. S. tycoon rejoiced...