Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford on the Rappahannock. "I appeal," cried Gustav Krupp von Bohlen, "for American understanding-sympathetic understanding-of Germany!" Soon afterward Chancellor Hitler placed the Fatherland's great industrialists on his right hand last week. He created and attached to his Cabinet an advisory Economic Council on which Munitions Tycoon Krupp von Bohlen will rub elbows with Electric Tycoon Carl Friedrich von Siemens and Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen. This was all very well for German business with a big "B" but in politics the Cabinet proceeded to carry on with arbitrary violence. Thirty laws were decreed at a single Cabinet...
Died. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 71, shipping tycoon, reputed possessor of Great Britain's largest fortune (circa $140,000,000); in Dieppe, France. To his vast shipping enterprises he added real estate and publishing, at one time owned a string of newspapers and smartcharts, including London's Sphere, Sketch, Tatler. Hardly more than a name to the average Briton, he shunned publicity and public places, shooed away photographers, lived in a simplicity suggesting stinginess, occupied but one inch of space in Who's Who. He stealthily gave fat sums to charity, was irked when newshawks got wind...
Died. John Markle, 74, retired coal tycoon, Manhattan charitarian; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Starting with Pennsylvania anthracite properties inherited from his father, he bought up adjacent flooded mines, built the huge Jeddo Tunnel through three miles of rock to drain them. During the 1902 strike he fiercely called on President Roosevelt for Federal troops to subdue the United Mine Workers under John Mitchell. Disgruntled by the settlement of the strike, he gave up active supervision of his properties, moved to Manhattan. In 1907 he went totally blind, later recovered the use of his left eye. Good friend...
...automobile crash in San Antonio, Tex. injured plump, benevolent Edgar B, Davis, rubber & oil tycoon who spent $1,500,000 to keep the play The Ladder going for 22 months in 1927-28 because he believed in its "message" about transmigration of souls...
Errett Lobban Cord, automobile & aviation tycoon, was watching an airplane motor on a test block in a Los Angeles shop. The propeller snapped, sheared through a wire netting, knocked him unconscious. At a soaring meet at Elmira, N. Y., Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...