Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brothers ceased speaking to each other. Last week Lord Kylsant intimated frigidly that on at least one occasion Lord St. Davids had written a letter expressly to inform his brother that he would not speak to him. It was a quarrel de luxe, peer against peer, brother against brother, tycoon against tycoon-over a $10,000,000 technicality...
...Duke of Abercorn. Lord St. Davids was not informed of the new issue and first became aware of it when he read an advertisement in the Times wherein his own name was used conspicuously. Although he admitted last week that there was nothing illegal about such a procedure, Tycoon St. Davids was grievously vexed, brooded long, and one day demanded certain facts from the company auditor. Like most auditors, this one was a reserved gentleman. His reticence, and other aspects of the matter, so enraged the noble Lord that he issued a pamphlet setting forth his grievances, announcing that...
...Tycoon had smitten tycoon. The thews and sinews of St. Davids were those of the Chairman of the Buenos Aires & Pacific Railway, Argentine Great Western Railway, Costa Rica Co., etc., etc. When Tycoon Kylsant decided to smite back next day, he entered! the lists as Chairman of the Royal Mail, of the White Star Line and many another line, also as Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. Rising to address a shareholders' meeting of one of his subsidiary companies the "Lord of the Seven Seas" shook his impressive mane of pure white hair and solemnly declared...
When Lord Kylsant had fully set forth his position, the almost immediate result was to send Royal Mail shares bounding up almost to where they had been before the St. Davids pamphlet appeared. Victory seemed to perch on Tycoon Kylsant's standard, but it was not complete until the following afternoon when a meeting of the Royal Mail Debenture stockholders was called-a meeting which both tycoons were in duty bound to attend...
Powerfully built, determined of mien, Tycoon St. Davids entered the meeting room early, ignored his place at the Directors' table, aggressively took a seat in the second row of chairs allotted to debenture stockholders. After a time the other directors entered in a body, among them towering Tycoon Kylsant and the Duke of Abercorn. Rapidly they took their places until all the chairs at the Directors' table were full except one-the one ostentatiously left vacant by Viscount St. Davids. As the room quieted to a deadly hush, Baron Kylsant glanced sharply at the vacant chair, frowned, then...