Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hague, the League of Nations headquarters in Geneva, they doubled back toward Lisbon. Forced down by fog off the coast of Spain, they came ashore in a little fishing village named Santona, were accosted by an officer who had never heard Colonel Lindbergh's name. A local tycoon named Jose Alvo took them into his house, importantly answered telephone calls from London and Paris trying to trace their whereabouts. Senor Alvo informed one caller: "Yes. Senor Lindbergh is here. He is taking a bath." Two days later, when fog forced them down again on the Minho River, they spent...
Hyman Barnett Zaharoff, 63, a Lithuanian living in Ruislip, England, who asserts that he is the son of 83-year-old Sir Basil Zaharoff, European munitions tycoon (TIME, Oct. 16), filed claims in London and Paris to compel Sir Basil, now lying ill in his Paris home, to recognize him. He asserted that Sir Basil was Russian-born, submitted an affidavit from the town council of Vilkomir, Lithuania (formerly part of Russia), and marriage and birth certificates establishing that one Manel Sahar married a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski, had a son named Haim Manelevich Sahar. The marriage...
...class"; quotes Jimmy's definition of a reformer: "A guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat." He retails the philosophy of Barney Gallant, Latvian Jew who once shared an apartment with Eugene O'Neill, later became Greenwich Village's night-club tycoon: "No isms or cults are any good. Every man should be his own Jesus...
...Francisco newshawks who tried to see Doris Duke, 20, richest ($53.000,000) U. S. heiress, daughter of the late Tobacco Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke, were received by her half-brother Walker Patterson Inman. who said Heiress Duke was compelled to leave San Francisco as soon as her presence there became known, that she avoids photographers for fear her features will become easily recognizable to cranks and extortionists. "Everywhere we go it's the same," complained Mr. Inman. "She gets to see a few of the sights, goes out to dinner a few times and then her identity becomes...
...race of the season. Then up out of the mud pounded a very dark horse indeed, Raymond, a starter at 33-to-1. Raymond's jockey was a scrawny little South African named George Nicholl. Raymond's owner was the great South African diamond tycoon. Sir Abe Bailey. Raymond finished an easy winner. His Majesty's Limelight was not even in the money. "The King loses!" cried sympathetic spectators. King George dropped his glasses in his lap. Queen Mary in a thick purple coat patted his hand consolingly...