Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Carlyle Blackwell, 49, old-time film actor; from Leah ("Queen of Diamonds") Barnato Blackwell, daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato; in Reno. Six hours later he married Avonne Taylor, onetime Ziegfeld beauty, divorced wife of Thomas F. Manville...
Sweepings is worthwhile for Lionel Barrymore's full-length portrait of a tight-lipped tycoon and for a smaller but equally perfect study by Gregory Ratoff of the tycoon's jealous but sympathetic underling. Husband of Eugenie Leontovich, a well-known actress in Moscow before the War who acted in Manhattan choruses until Grand Hotel made her famous, Gregory Ratoff's success in the U. S. came a little later than his wife's but with equal suddenness. He was the producer in Once in a Lifetime; his appalling Russo-Semitic accent was what brought...
...Evanston, Ill., when the last of five extortion letters directed Mrs. James A. Patten, 75, relict of Chicago's wheat tycoon, to walk at night down the street with $50,000, a policewoman set out from the Patten house at the specified time disguised as Mrs. Patten, carrying a dummy packet and a revolver. Detectives caught one Axel Peterson, 52, onetime well-to-do landscape gardener employed by Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes and Northwestern University...
...Government bloc, respectively headed by National Socialist (Nazi) Chancellor Hitler and Nationalist Minister of Economics. Food & Agriculture Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, Germany's Hearstian news and cinema tycoon...
...first things that tall Charles Shipman Payson did after he graduated from Yale in 1921 was to marry Joan Whitney, daughter of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Payne Whitney and niece of the late Sportsman-Tycoon Harry Payne Whitney. One of the next things he did was to become interested in taking sugar syrups from Cuba to the U. S. Refined Syrups, Inc. made no money, claimed two engineers, until they suggested to Charlie Payson that he ship syrup sufficiently low in sugar content to dodge the $40-a-ton duty, pay 83? instead. Because this solution fermented within ten days...