Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hunt. To the cumulative troubles of sick William Fox, hounded onetime film tycoon, two new law suits were added last week. Fox Theatres sued him and six of his friends & kin for $5,000,000 last fortnight (TIME, July 4). Fox Film Corp, last week sued to recover possibly $10,000,000 from Filman Fox, Jack G. Leo, a former vice president, and partners in M. J. ("Mike") Meehan's brokerage house, which handled many a Fox pool. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Aaron Fox, came forward too, with a $250,000 suit in behalf of her children...
...offering company was Fidelio Brewery, Inc., of Manhattan. The offer was made by Bauer, Pogue & Co., and consisted of 500,000 $1 par shares at $2. Fidelio started in 1852 as H. Koehler & Co., ale-brewers. It was later bought by Samuel Goldberger, Bohemian hop tycoon. His son, Norman S. Goldberger, is president of the company now, having worked in it since he was graduated from Columbia in 1904. Many of the other employes are working in positions once held by their fathers, including a brewmaster whose father mixed Fidelio's brews from...
About a month ago Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer, tycoon and owner of the New York "Yankees," estimated that all in all the brewing industry would spend some $200,000,000 in rehabilitation, if & when. His own company's requirements, he said, would be $5,000,000. Ready to board the beer wagon last week was Louis J. Ehret, son af the late Brewer George Ehret. He incorporated a new George Ehret Brewing Co., to be all ready...
Unlike many another ousted tycoon, William Fox would probably be able to satisfy the huge claims, if obtained, of the suit now pending. For his majority holdings of the two small voting issues of stock in Fox Film and Fox Theatres he was reputed to have been paid about $18,000,000 cash and a $500,000 annual dispensation until...
...Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when the Houston, East & West Texas pushed through his father's farm. Rising as a local attorney for Texas & Pacific, he was spotted by the late Tycoon Edward Henry Harriman, who quickly made him head of all his lines, appointed him administrator of his estate. As president of both Southern Pacific and Union Pacific he fought savagely against Federal segregation. When defeated in 1913, he threw in his lot with Union Pacific. His only son, Robert Abercrombie...