Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does politically-alert TIME feel in its own heart that Publisher Frank Knox is presidentially possible [TIME, Oct. 14]? Its recital of his life's work to date reads like that of any other tycoon of the street who has learned how to make money and employ it wisely. A reader of the Chicago Daily News ever since Candidate Knox took it over, and long before. I have never known it to profess a political creed other than standpat, high-tariffed, hands-off Republicanism, the creed of the American debacle...
...Britain would be a sanction no power on earth would dare to face (TIME, June 17), it proposes an intercontinental subway line and shows the difficulties involved in engineering such a marvel. The workers are hampered by a submarine volcano, the machinations of an armament tycoon and domestic difficulties that beset the chief engineer (Richard Dix). His wife (Madge Evans) thinks he is in love with a U. S. millionaire's daughter (Helen Vinson) and deserts him, a mishap for which the engineer blames his best friend (Leslie Banks...
Like Philadelphia's Tycoon Albert C. Barnes (Argyrol), Dutch Tycoon W. H. Müller (copper, steamboats) is one of the world's most eminent collectors of modern paintings. Really assembled by Mevrouw Müller, the Kröller-Müller collection of nearly 1,000 pictures contains 98 of some 700 paintings produced by Vincent van Gogh in his lifetime. They have announced that on their death their collection and their huge estate near The Hague, where it is housed, will be turned over to the public, that a large museum will be built...
Married. Kathryn Schrafft, plump opera-singing daughter of the late Candy Tycoon George F. Schrafft; and Sir Peter Norton-Griffiths, handsome London barrister; in Newton, Mass...
Sweet Mystery of Life (by Richard Maibaum. Michael Wallach & George Haight; Herman Shumlin, producer). Written with one eye on Broadway's hilarious Three Men on a Horse and the other on Hollywood, this farce exhibits the psychological rejuvenation of a grouchy department store tycoon (Gene Lockhart) who fancies himself ready to die. Three scheming vice presidents plan to insure his life, then talk him into his grave. Hastily summoned is a moony ager.t (Hobart Cavanaugh) of Good Life Insurance Co. who observes that "Life Insurance is Immortality." finds himself the dazed recipient of commissions...