Word: tycooning
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...practical purposes, the British industry is mainly Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank (TIME, Dec. 20). Among the new crop of Hollywood tycoons, perhaps the most up-&-coming is the boss of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Spyros Panajotis Skouras, 51. Three months ago muscular Tycoon Skouras flew to England to see Tycoon Rank. With him Spyros Skouras carried the worries of Hollywood about Cinemagnate Rank. Was Mr. Rank willing to come to terms, or was he getting ready for a knockdown, drag-out fight for a chunk of Hollywood's world monopoly? Last week persuasive Mr. Skouras clippered back...
Bruce Barton, advertising tycoon, onetime G.O.P. Congressman, ranged himself alongside the Sheriff of Nottingham. In a speech before some 370 be-orchided New Jersey socialites, he found a new name for Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: the New Deal's "morals have never risen above the level of Robin Hood, who defended his thefts from the rich on the ground that he gave to the poor...
Died. Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, 47, homicide's tycoon (Murder, Inc.), arch-racketeer; in the electric chair; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y., eight years after his conviction for the murder of clothing trucker Joseph Rosen. Fawnlike. liquid-eyed, Russian-born son of an immigrant herring-peddler, he stole from Manhattan East Side pushcarts almost as soon as he held his first job. Racketeering he regarded as a kind of extension of normal business methods. During the late '20s and early '30s Lepke gradually established himself as violence's master-middleman between labor unions and industry...
...urbane, greying Sam Wood, who diluted For Whom the Bell Tolls so that Spanish Fascists became "nationalists" and Spanish Republicans came out like the American G.O.P. His general staff includes Walt Disney, Rupert Hughes, one writer from Republic Studios, and ten Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives, faithful minions of Tycoon Louis B. Mayer. Gary Cooper, Hemingway's Spanish Republican hero, ate dinner with them. Hearst papers gave the affair pages of pleased attention...
...Please accept my thanks along with those of the whole West Coast for this forward step," wired Los Angeles aviation tycoon "Dutch" Kindelberger. "Good news indeed," echoed University of California President Robert G. Sproul. "I hope other publishers will accept the challenge...