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Word: tycooning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Miltiades Melachrino, 77, cigaret tycoon; after long illness; in Queens, N. Y. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, he founded M. Melachrino & Co. at Cairo, Egypt, moved it to New York in 1904, retired 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...wife liked excitement, social affairs and a good time, and no blame is attached to her for that, because at her age such things are to be expected." Separated. Madeleine Force Astor Dick, widow of John Jacob Astor who was drowned on the Titanic; and William K. Dick, sugar tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

Last week in Tampa, Fla. Barron Gift Collier,* famed organizer of car card advertising, virtually declared himself bankrupt. He did not use the exact word. What he said was that he could not pay all his debts immediately and wanted a moratorium. He thus became first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the new bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed the day before he left office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Extended Tycoon | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...This argument of TIME as a man's or woman's magazine seems to me much more important for a discussion in your Letters column, than the well-known argument about the word tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

Jesse Isidor Straus, Manhattan department store tycoon (R. H. Macy & Co.), sailed for his post as Ambassador to France. Current among his friends at home became this cracker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

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