Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prize-winning Men in White last season, the very earnest Group Theatre has brought forth another item in its series of interpretations of U. S. life. Gold Eagle Guy is not so much a play as a theatrical character study of the rise & fall of a San Francisco shipping tycoon from...
Divorce Denied. To Lady Vera Hodge, onetime Countess of Cathcart, heroine of the uproarious "moral turpitude" incident in 1926:* from Sir Rowland Hodge, 75, Tyneside shipping tycoon; in London. Lady Hodge's charge: misconduct. Reason for denial: insufficient evidence...
During the Kentucky Derby last May all of Pullman's private cars were chartered but usually about only four are in transit simultaneously about the country. If a tycoon prefers his own car, Pullman will build it for him, as it has done for 226 people and companies in the past, at a cost of $65,000 up. Henry Ford spent $200,000 on his Fair Lane. Last private car built was the Wanderer, for the late Harry Payne Whitney...
Died, Gaston Menier, 79, French Senator and chocolate tycoon; in Chateau de Noisiel, his estate near Paris. In 1896 he bought for $160,000 Anticosti Island, big as Connecticut, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, "commuted" to France in his yacht, was feudal overlord of 500 families until the island was sold...
Died. Edward Wellington Backus, 73, Minneapolis lumber & paper tycoon (Backus-Brooks Co.) ; suddenly, of heart disease; in Manhattan, which he was visiting on business. Taken to the prairies as a child during the Civil War, he started in business with 3,000 borrowed dollars, eventually ruled a $100,000,000 empire that included banks, power, telephones, railroads. Unable to refund a bond issue in 1931, tall, tough President Backus lost control. Last January he fiercely started a comeback in the form of a suit to dismiss his receivers for mismanagement (TIME...