Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whites had taken Jan. 15 as their deadline for victory, the heaviest fighting of the entire civil war was going great guns this week, with German air bombs and projectiles pounding the $4,000,000 U. S.-owned Telephone Building into increasing uselessness. At latest reports U. S. Telephone Tycoon Colonel Sosthenes Behn was still with his battered building, although the U. S. and British embassies had long since been officially evacuated, and last week were scarred by air bomb splinters. Splinters lodged in the heads of a left-behind British military attache and an Englishwoman but neither was seriously...
...church where precedent does not allow women the right to preach. An Anglican, she first sermonized under the auspices of a rector who evaded the precedent by announcing : "The service is at an end. Miss Royden will now talk." A pioneer suffragist, Socialist sister of Shipping Tycoon Sir Thomas Royden, she was launched as an active pulpiteer by Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, who in 1917 made her his assistant at London's City Temple, "Cathedral of British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then set up as an independent minister at Guild...
...with a bathing beauty and I am nattered." On an African pleasure cruise, during which he will write on health conditions. sailed Dr. Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson and Max Epstein, Chicago tank car tycoon who chairmanned the Wartime Draft Board. "Yellow fever." observed adventuring Dr. Heiser. "has been largely driven back into Africa. . . . One infected person or one infected mosquito carried to Europe or India by plane could start an epidemic that would wipe out millions. It would probably be the greatest disaster...
Married- Angier Biddle Duke, 21, Yale junior, son & namesake of the late tobacco tycoon who left him. $5,000,000; and Priscilla St. George, 17, Tuxedo debutante, great-granddaughter of the late Banker George Fisher Baker: in Tuxedo...
Died, Andrew Bernhard Charles Dohrmann, 68, potent San Francisco department store tycoon (The Emporium), founder of the city's Community Chest, majority stockholder in Yosemite Park concessions; of heart disease; in San Francisco...