Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sitter Garner she recalled: "He called me 'little lady' and gave me a long talk about caring for my teeth." Crowned Queen Shenandoah XIII of the annual Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester, Va. was pretty, brunette Cornelia Ann Larus, 20, daughter of Richmond Tobacco Tycoon Lewis Griffin Larus (Edgeworth...
...Government launched on an enormous and costly campaign of national defense, he could see no likelihood of military expenses declining in the next year or two, every chance that taxes would soon mount to five shillings in the pound. Wailed Sir Francis L'Estrange Joseph, coal & iron tycoon: "The British Taxpayer is back in Bleak House...
Last week it became apparent that Edward Lancaster Lee understood this language better than his colleagues. After an eight-day round robin in which each man played the seven others, Deardorff had been beaten twice and Edmond Soussa, sad-eyed son of a Cairo cigaret tycoon, three times, while Lagache, the defending champion, had lost more games than he had won. Lee not only won all seven of his games but, in the last, against Lagache, made the high run of the tournament-10 caroms...
...André ("L'Americain") Tardieu, Premier in 1929-30. After a year and a half's retirement writing his memoirs on the Riviera, André Tardieu was reported ready to run for Parliament from Belfort, at the insistence of Belfort's boss, Senator Viellard, steel tycoon. M. Tardieu went to Belfort. but instead of announcing himself a candidate for the Chamber, he made his sponsor's ears burn by declaring that he was through with parliamentary government forever...
Married. Michael Grace ("Mike") Phipps 27, grandson of the late Steel-master Henry Phipps and the late Shipping Tycoon Michael P. Grace, international polo player (handicap: eight goals); and Muriel Pillans Lane, British socialite; m Palm Beach...