Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter F. Dillingham's father built the narrow-gauge railroad that loops around Oahu, connecting its sugar plantations. As the head of the Oahu Railway & Land Co.. and multifarious other interests, son Dillingham is No. 1 Tycoon of the Islands...
Aged 54 years, 6 ft. 3 in. tall, a man of strong and striking demeanor, Tycoon Dillingham has five homes on Oahu: 1) a copy of a Medici palace with open court; and pool on Diamond Head; 2) A copy of a Japanese home which was brought overseas piece by piece, including rocks and moss for decoration, at Waikiki; 3) A mountain home high up on the Punchbowl; 4) A cottage at Pearl Harbor, for sailing; 5) A million-dollar ranch for fine; horses and huge houseparties. So open-handed...
...conduct of its chief tycoon typifies the Islands' democracy. When he goes into a Honolulu shop to buy a new hat, the clerk calls him "Walter." Old native-women selling Lei at the steamers josh with him in Hawaiian. When an enterprising young Jew sought to marry the daughter of a potent Gentile ship-operator, the girl's father, distressed, went to 'Walter' for help, advice. Said Mr. Dillingham: "Go on and let her marry him. She could do a whole lot worse...
Died. Alexander Smith Cochran, 53, of New York City, carpet tycoon, yachtman, onetime "richest bachelor," divorced husband of Ganna Walska (now Mrs. Harold F. McCormick); at Saranac Lake...
...Simon Patino, even greater Bolivian tin tycoon, is Minister to France...