Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this abrupt move Dr. Schacht brought a sizeable section of Berlin finance into the Biggest Business phalanx lined up behind Handsome Adolf by Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen (TIME. Nov. 28). Also in Berlin, actively supporting the Hitler cause last week, was a close kinsman of British King-Emperor George V, none other than Duke Karl Eduard von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha who recently married his daughter Princess Sibylle to the eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince (TIME. Oct. 10). Backed by the banker, the tycoon, the duke and by a large plurality of German voters, Leader Hitler...
Married-Rachel Lowe Lambert, eldest daughter of Gerard Barnes Lambert, drugs tycoon, president of Gillette Safety Razor Co.; and Stacy B. Lloyd Jr., Philadelphia socialite; in Princeton...
...were holding their first joint art exhibition at Philadelphia's swank Mellon Galleries. The exhibition opened with an announcement for which most modern artists would give four sound teeth: four of the Pinto Brothers' paintings have been sold to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Argyrol tycoon with the big modern art museum in Merion. Pa. Even better, the almost legendary Dr. Barnes has written the foreword to the Pintos' catalog, an honor he has conferred only once before and then upon Giorgio de Chirico. His Pinto purchases were Salvatore's "Beach Group" and "Beach Scene"; Angelo...
...Strong Personal Dislike." If Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen is not Berlin's Lorenzo the Magnificent, he is an excellent modern imitation. At Herr Thyssen's enormous detective-watched residence Leader Hitler and Oberst Goring ate dinner after their flights to Berlin. They conferred the same night with Germany's modern Machiavelli, soft-spoken General-leutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense in the von Papen Cabinet which continued to function ad interim. Germans soon noticed the surprising fact that several newsorgans of Biggest Business, such as Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitiing and Rheinisch-Westfalische, had abruptly switched from hostility to support...
...built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose.* One of their most vivid childish recollections is the old copper tycoon's glittering gold teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams of a Harvard freshman. During the War he served with distinction as an aviator...