Word: tycooning
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After dreaming up and dummying up PM in 1939 ("an all-star cast of friends" like Heywood Broun, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman helped get out the first dry runs), Ingersoll began scouring the country for an angel. Once he almost found one in Life Saver Tycoon Edward Noble. They were set to sign the next day. That day Hitler marched into Poland and Noble decided not to march into any risky investments. Ingersoll finally found 16 backers who would "gamble with $100,000 chips," but money petered out, and he talked Field into carrying the whole debt...
...year (tax free) presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development had gone begging for months. Several prospects had rejected the job. Then Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan began thumping the drums for ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, now a real-estate and Scotch-whiskey tycoon. That got action, but of an unexpected sort...
...Gould III, 26, great-grandson of the late railroad tycoon, still had a wife. Jennifer Bruce Gould, 21, daughter of Cinemactor Nigel Bruce, was refused a divorce by a Los Angeles judge who judged her complaints insufficient. Some of them: Husband Jay wouldn't let her dance or play tennis with anybody but him, didn't like her theatrical friends, demanded full-fashioned meals, and was too demonstrative in his public lovemaking...
...President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote to Pius XII: ". . . It would give me great satisfaction to send to you my personal representative in order that our parallel endeavors for peace and the alleviation of suffering may be assisted." The representative turned out to be 72-year-old ex-steel tycoon Myron Charles Taylor...
When Evan Llewelyn Evans, Beautee Soap tycoon, walked into conference, executives trembled and secretaries swooned. When Vic Norman took the dreaded job of handling Beautee's radio commercials for the firm of Kimberly and Maag, despotic Mr. Evans put on one of his most impressive acts. First, he spat on the conference table-to illustrate to Vic that no matter how disgusting a radio commercial may be, it's O.K. if it hits the spot. Then he emptied a carafe of water over the table (drenching the knocking knees of several hirelings)-to illustrate that any other kind...