Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the week Londoners picked as their favorite character in the U. S. Delegation tall, breezy Texas ranching tycoon Ralph W. Morrison. Not much concerned with Conference backstairs intrigue (see p. 15), Mr. Morrison sat through more Conference sessions than any other U. S. Delegate, puffed a fat cigar in pleasant ignorance that all the little signs reading "Prière de ne pas fiimcr" meant "Please do not smoke...
...Tycoon Straus, who resigned his R. H. Macy & Co. chairmanship to become ambassador (TIME, March 20), carried more than mere formal credentials from the White House to the Elysée. A trace of President Roosevelt's irritation at French reluctance to fall in with the White House's plans for European disarmament (TIME, May 8) edged Ambassador Straus's little speech on being presented to sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun...
Born. To Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Philadelphia sportsman-socialite, divorced husband of Mary L. Duke, tobacco heiress; and Margaret Hickman Schulze Biddle, daughter of the late Mining Tycoon William Boyce Thompson: a son; in Paris. Weight...
Seeking Divorce. Elizabeth Browning Donner Roosevelt, 21, daughter of Steel Tycoon William H. Donner of Villanova, Pa.; and Elliott Roosevelt, 22, the President's second son. Grounds: incompatibility...
...Publisher Curtis should want it. Since the death of his second wife, Mrs. Kate Stanwood Pillsbury Curtis, in Philadelphia a year ago, while he was gravely ill in the hospital with her, Publisher Curtis had rarely ventured away from home. Most U. S. schoolboys can recite the newsboy-to-tycoon story of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, as told by his son-in-law the late Edward William Bok,* but it is doubtful if he is a hero to many of those boys. Not that he was unworthy. On the contrary, every turn of his career provides a text...