Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of State. He addresses an army of unemployed, enlists them in a civilian workers corps. He gets rid of all his Cabinet when they plot against him. When there is a motion in Congress to impeach him, he adjourns Congress, makes himself dictator. Molested by a tycoon gangster, he places his secretary at the head of a corps of Federal police in armored cars. They bombard the gangster's distillery, deliver its occupants to a firing squad. Throughout the picture the invisible presence of the Angel Gabriel is felt no more strongly than that of William Randolph Hearst...
...Everest flyers were engaged basically in a sporting proposition. Others had ascended to the stratosphere, descended to the bathysphere, flown all the oceans. The Houston-Mt. Everest group surmounted the last superlative. A famed sportsman was in their midst-Lord Clydesdale. Plump Lady Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon, who underwrote the British Schneider Cup entry in 1931 (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931) gave her name and money to the expedition. Lord Clydesdale gave it éclat. Until last January he was the provisional leader. When Commodore Fellowes took command, Lord Clydesdale became Squadron Leader. He and Commodore Fellowes took turns...
Died. Frank Theodore Hulswit, 57, onetime utilities tycoon; when he fell/jumped from his apartment on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Hotel Astor. President of United Light & Power Co. since 1910, he resigned, lost a reputed $10,000,000 when his New York Curb Exchange bull pool in the company's stock collapsed in 1926. Next year he came back as president of American Commonwealths Power Corp., was elected a director of United Light & Power...
Solal founded a political newspaper: power and riches poured into his hands. Aude adored her husband until she discovered his secret: he had transported the Jewish colony of Cephalonia to the cellars of his princely château. Daytimes he was a tycoon and a Cabinet Minister; at night he reverted to the wailing Jew. Aude was horrified and left him. Then Solal abandoned everything for her-faith, riches, power-and became a renegade, but her love for him was dead. He went downhill fast. With the last of his strength he went in search of her, found her happy...
Samples of S. O. E. D. definition: "Tycoon. 1863. (ad. Jap. taikun great lord or prince, f. Chinse ta great & kiun prince.) The title by which the shogun of Japan was described to foreigners...