Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partnership" between the President and every employer from the corner grocer to the biggest tycoon was to be voluntary (no law existed to force it upon all industry & business) and run until Jan. 1. Approval of regular trade codes before that date would release all "partners" in the subscribing industry. Excepting household servants and farm hands, all employes were divided into two groups: 1) those who worked with their hands in factories and shops; 2) those who worked with their heads in offices and stores. Employers of Group 1 were asked not to work their help more than eight hours...
Engaged, Barren Gift Collier Jr., son of the car-card tycoon who last month sought a "moratorium" on $13,500,000 of debts (TIME, June 12); and Barbara May, Manhattan socialite...
Married, John Borden, 49, oil tycoon, sportsman-explorer, divorced month ago by Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden (TIME, July 10); and Frances Yeaton, 21, his secretary; in Muskegon, Mich...
...protest against German antiSemitism, Henry Ludwig Mond, Baron Melchett, British chemical tycoon, half-Jewish member of the Church of England, embraced Judaism in a liberal London synagog...
Rhodesian copper tycoon (Roan Antelope), announced he would become a citizen of England, where he has lived for 25 years...