Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London's sidewalk artists reap a harvest of Sunday coppers by drawing Mrs. Simpson in colored crayon. Meanwhile King Edward at his snuggery declines to receive his friend and recent guest in Scotland, the Hon. Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, son of the No. 2 British Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere. In his great, mass-conscious penny-press thunders Rothermere: "I have just returned from a trip around the world. . . . Everywhere unstinted praise and admiration of our King! . . . You cannot smuggle the greatest living Englishman off the throne of England during the weekend...
Through Rio's streets, around the wide sickle of Rio's bay, and up into the misty hills beyond, the bi-Presidential party rode 30 miles into the country to attend the first function of the day, luncheon at the home of Tycoon E. G. Fontes. There Franklin Roosevelt had his first opportunity to charm the denizens of high South American society, including Senora Vargas and her two daughters...
Twelve times the assembly applauded heartily, then stood while he departed. While the great men of Brazil had an intermission to recover their emotional balance, President Roosevelt retired to the Renaissance mansion of his old friend, Tycoon Carlos Guinle. There Franklin Roosevelt unbent for Brazilian newshawks, charmed them by expressing the hope that President Vargas would visit...
Last week in Manhattan, red-headed Strikebreaker Bergoff told the National Labor Relations Board some of the things that he and Tycoon Rand discussed last summer. "Most of the time." said he, "we talked about football. Jim [Harvard 1908] was telling me what a great football player he was. He thought he was better than Jim Thorpe in his younger days, and I told him he wasn't." Mr. Bergoff also said they had talked business-the breaking of strikes then in progress at six Remington Rand plants (TIME, June 22). It was in connection with that series...
Most indignant was Breaker Bergoff at what happened to some of his men at Remington Rand's Tonawanda, N. Y. plant. Tycoon Rand wanted them to walk through picket lines, thus give loyal employes courage to follow. When the Bergoff huskies tried it, they were showered with bricks. "Rand," recounted Bergoff last week, "kind of put it over on me. I didn't know my men were getting into quite such a dangerous spot. He even wanted me to bring women up there, but I didn't do it, and I'm glad I didn...