Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...despises armchair economists, took a keen personal liking to dynamic Dr. Schmitt as a "frontline war fighter." (His nose, however, was not cleft in battle but in a student duel.) Not an original Nazi, Dr. Schmitt entered the Cabinet with a reputation as Germany's No. 1 insurance tycoon, a man of rugged integrity whose energy and calm enabled the Frankfurter Insurance Co. to be reorganized in 1930 without great loss to policy holders...
...porcine British Press Tycoon Lord Rothermere, pudding-headed brother of the late great Northcliffe, caught acute cold feet last week regarding his candidate for British dictator, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley...
...Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which he and his family sailed round the world three years ago. Six other little sailboats made up the largest fleet ever entered in the California to Hawaii race since it was first sailed in 1908. They put out from Los Angeles Harbor...
...Whitney is to Rockefeller in the U. S. Harold Dillingham, whose big house stands on Diamond Head Drive above the finish line of last week's race, has island interests in sugar. fruit, shipping and railroads as well as yachting. His brother Walter is a sugar and utilities tycoon as well as a crack polo player...
...college Harry Payne Whitney once declared in a questionnaire that he could trace his ancestry "out of sight." To trace the fortune he left when he died in 1930 it was not necessary to go back farther than his father, William Collins Whitney, traction tycoon, Secretary of the Navy under Cleveland, who left him $24,000,000; and his uncle, Col. Oliver Hazard Payne, who left him about $12,000,000. Last week Harry Payne Whitney's fortune at the time of his death was appraised by New York State for tax collection purposes...