Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration, was again apparent, for Edward Stettinius Sr., Morgan partner who died in 1925, was one of Mr. Baruch's associates in handling Wartime industry. Son Stettinius. only 32, graduate of the University of Virginia, a vice president of General Motors, was given the job of stimulating the tycoon members of the Industrial Advisory Board appointed by Secretary of Commerce Roper (TIME, June 26) to throw their influence effectively behind General Johnson's efforts...
Last week Britain's U. S.-born Department Store Tycoon Harry Gordon Selfridge held the rope of the great tenor bell. Shocked by the lapse of a British legend, he had paid for the restoration of Bow bells. He handed the rope to white-ton-sured Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. The oldsters of the Ancient Society of College Youths who traditionally ring the bells stood ready. Archbishop Lang leaned firmly on the bell-rope. Across Cheapside the great bell of Bow-said again."I-DO-NOT-KNOW!" The eleven smaller bells chimed...
...sold the family castle to Vincent Bendix for $3,000,000. That aviation and auto accessory tycoon listed it in the telephone book as "The Bendix Galleries," after adding Rembrandts and Christys. He modernized the elevator, installed a barber's chair for his own use and gave many a loud party. Later he passed it on to a syndicate for the amount of the mortgage...
Left. By Edward Foster Swift, meat packing tycoon who was instantly killed last year in a fall from a window of his Chicago apartment (TIME, June 6, 1932 ): $10,000,000; to his wife, to his three children and to charity, one-third each. Recent stock rises have more than doubled the value of his estate...
...Fairbanks, fond of traveling, went globe trotting alone. Last week he wired her from London that she would have to pay for the upkeep of ''Pickfair," their Beverly Hills home. To the Press, she wept, confirmed the separation, hinted at divorce. Divorced. John Borden, 49, oil tycoon, "Millionaire Explorer"; by Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden. 34; Chicago socialite once previously married; in Reno. Died. Roscoe Conkling ("Fatty") Arbuckle, 46, globular oldtime cinemactor; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Although acquitted of manslaughter after the death of one Virginia Rappe eleven years ago, the malodorous evidence brought...