Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hell but it also has no connection with Dante, save for the fact that a subsidiary character owns a copy of that Italian's works. It is, on the contrary, a modern morality play showing how a carnival concessionaire (Spencer Tracy) works up to the status of amusement tycoon by dishonest means which cause his wife (Claire Trevor) to go off for a holiday...
...Paul's School where, like his father, he ably mixed Christianity and athletics. He did not go to college. Instead, in 1915, aged 18, he married Mary Duke, who eventually fell heir to the millions of her father, Benjamin Newton Duke, brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke. In 1931, after bearing him two children, Mary Duke Biddle divorced her husband, who shortly married Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schulze, daughter & heiress of the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, mining tycoon. With a superbly shaped pair of shoulders, lean, muscular Minister Biddle has been voted by tailors...
...bonds and all of the 5½% and 7% notes of Hood Rubber Co., a Watertown, Mass, subsidiary which manufactures Goodrich footwear as well as products under its own name. All this seemed commonplace enough to Goodrich shareholders. But to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, once-famed Cleveland banker and power tycoon, it became high treason the moment President Tew, in selecting the list of underwriters for the proposed issue, passed over the Cleveland investment house of Otis & Co. Cyrus Eaton used to be the principal partner in Otis & Co., which five years ago helped underwrite another Goodrich bond issue. Though Otis...
...Detroit Chal lenge Cup, he beat Azucar, winner of last winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest test so far, because this time he was giving weight not only to King Saxon (8 Ib.) but also to Top Row (16 Ib.), holder of the world's record for 1-1/16 mile, and because the Butler...
Died. Andre Gustave Citroen, 57, French motorcar tycoon; of cancer; in Paris...