Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet of pure Nordic and no friend of Adolf Hitler is Shipping Tycoon Johan Ludwig Mowinckel, now for the third time Premier of Norway, the world's No. 4 nation in tramp shipping...
...melodrama of the rails. The Silver Streak, according to this picture, is the design of square-jawed young Tom Caldwell (Charles Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with Tom Caldwell at the controls and B. J. Dexter biting his knuckles in its luxurious caboose, to race from Chicago...
...George Lansbury, Laborite Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, had a perfect opening to attack his Majesty's Government as perjured hypocrites, but instead he endorsed their wisdom, obvious apparently to all Great Britons except that Canadian-born Press Tycoon Baron Beaverbrook. Unheeded, his Daily Express roared, "This is what comes of meddling in a quarrel that is not ours! ... By sending in British troops we lay ourselves open to the eventual criticism of both France and Germany. . . . We are like the fool who interferes in another family's dispute...
Typical of the businessmen's uneasy rumblings was Tycoon Bardo's cry: "We must have an end of the era of suspicion and come into an era of confidence. . . . We must have some assurances that the [Government's] charted course leads to safe shores...
...Herbert Samuel Holt, Canadian rail-power-banking tycoon, resigned as president of far-flung Royal Bank of Canada, the Dominion's first billion-dollar bank, to become chairman of the board of directors...