Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repercussions in World Jewry were furious. Most Jewish leaders realize that the surest way to stir up anti-Semitism everywhere would be for Jews avowedly to organize a "Super-Government." No first rank Jewish tycoon openly contributes to the World Jewish Conference. In Manhattan the organization most U. S. Jewish tycoons support, the American Jewish Committee, manifestoed...
Married. Alice Lee Grosjean, 28, Louisiana supervisor of public accounts, onetime secretary to Senator Huey Long; and William Allen Tharp, 31, secretary of the Louisiana State Tax Commission, brother-in-law of Tycoon Errett Lobban Cord; in Los Angeles...
...Fritz Mandel, wife of the president of Austria's famed Hirtenberg Ammunition Works, was, before her marriage last year, Cinemactress Hedy Kiesler who got her start as Eva, the heroine of Extase. Tycoon Mandel not only does everything he can to have the film suppressed in as many countries as possible, but also maintains an offer to buy all outstanding posters of his wife in Extase...
...rebellious records, they were forbidden to carry firearms. They got their sustenance with bow & arrow. When after two years they returned to civilization, Maurice Thompson went to Indiana, wrote books on archery. Will Thompson went to Seattle, wrote his famed "The High Tide at Gettysburg," became attorney for Railroad Tycoon James J. Hill. Together, with Maurice for president, Will for champion, they founded the National Archery Association which last week held its 54th annual tournament at Storrs, Conn...
Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, General Electric's Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon felt something like a slap in the face last week when one of Europe's biggest industrialists quietly dubbed railway electrification obsolete. Arriving in Manhattan for a week's visit, Managing Director Sir Henri W. A. Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell said: "Electrification, except in a suburban way, is a thing of the past. Diesel power is far cheaper than electricity. With electricity, if the power plant breaks down, nothing moves, but with Diesel power the railways are absolutely independent. Why, Diesel...