Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artist Wright, pale, stoop-shouldered, with greying hair and a clipped black mustache, is a nephew of the late great Art Collector & Railroad Tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington. His father, Archibald Davenport Wright, was an amateur painter, architect, and builder of the Southern Railroad. His brother is Willard Huntington Wright, better known as "S. S. Van Dine," author of the Philo Vance detective stories. Artist Wright loathes Writer Wright's stories. Maintaining the family independence, Father Wright never looked at anything that his sons produced...
Separated. Edward F. Hutton, board chairman of General Foods Corp. and Zonite Products Corp., founder of E. F. Hutton & Co. (brokers), uncle of Countess (Barbara Hutton Mdivani) Haugwitz; and Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton, daughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post (Postum). Reported settlement...
China Doll (Jean Harlow), in defiance of the Legion of Decency, has apparently been the mistress of Captain Gaskell (Clark Gable) for six years. James MacArdle (Wallace Beery) is not a tycoon but a greasy, coastwise racketeer, aware that the Kin Lung carries a fat cargo of gold. McCaleb, the drunken novelist (Robert Benchley), insults his fellow passengers by misunderstanding them completely. High point of the story arrives when, having weathered a typhoon, the Kin Lung is attacked by Malay pirates who are in league with Racketeer MacArdle...
Married. Fritzi Burger, Austrian ice-skating champion; and Shinkiki Nishikawa, grandson of Japanese Pearl Tycoon Kokichi Mikimoto; in Vienna...
Founder-Chairman Alexander Duncan of Commercial Credit looks and acts like a cinematic tycoon. A canny Kentuckian of Scottish descent, he is tall and slender, ruddy of face, commanding of presence. He rarely entertains, almost never allows himself a vacation. He started his first credit house in 1907, organized Commercial Credit in Baltimore in 1912 with a capital of $300,000. More than half Commercial Credit's total financing comes from the automobile business and the company estimates a profit of from $5 to $7 on each automobile transaction. It has official contracts with Chrysler and Packard. Last December...