Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History has been in the making at University Hall for the past few days ever since John Simoneau, New Hampshire soft drink tycoon whose personality may be described as a combination of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jacob Ruppert, Jack Benny, Paul Harris, and Tex Rickard, has been making his presence felt in no uncertain manner...
...Saturday night the good men and true included such worthies as former Mayor John Fitzgerald, Charles Innes, Eliot Wadsworth, and other luminaries in the Hub firmament. They decided that Karen Andre was not guilty of the murder of her lover, Bjorne Faulkner, the notorious Swedish tycoon; which is just about the way things seemed to this unjudicial corner...
Born, To Walter Jodok Kohler Jr., son & namesake of Wisconsin's onetime (1929-30) Governor and plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler") ; and Celeste McVoy Holden Kohler: the first daughter to join the Kohler family in 50 years; in Sheboygan, Wis. Name: Celeste Nicollette...
...including a shop salesman and a post-office clerk, trembled with excitement to hear that next year they could throw up their jobs, settle down somewhere to do the work they like best. In Manhattan the $4,700,000 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed in 1925 by Mining Tycoon Simon Guggenheim and his wife Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, was ready to give its 1937 Fellows $115,000 with no strings attached. Two thousand dollars was the average stipend...
...forged the name of his uncle, Dan Rhodes Hanna, onetime publisher of the Cleveland News, to a $200 check. A onetime newshawk of 27, "Mark" Hanna III was divorced last February by the daughter of Ohio Republican Boss Maurice Maschke. Two months ago, when his father Carl Hanna, coal tycoon, died, "Mark" Hanna was disinherited, failed to attend the funeral...