Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trunkene Silen (The Drunken Silenus) reeling over a woman and her babes, supported by a satyr and a blackamoor, followed by a panther. This picture, long owned by the late Prince John of Lichtenstein, was sold, last week, for $30,000 to Mark Lindebaum, Viennese engineer and oil tycoon...
...Joseph Duveen, international art tycoon, has emerged unscathed if not triumphant from three $500,000 libel suits. In 1915 Art Dealer Edgar Gorer failed to prove that Sir Joseph's opinionizing had spoiled the sale of a Kang Hsi vase to the late, great collector Henry Clay Frick. In 1921 Mrs. Harry Hahn of Kansas City brought a suit which only last fortnight came to a bootless halt (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). In 1923 suit was brought by the late Art Dealer George Joseph Demotte of Manhattan, which ceased when Mr. Demotte was accidentally shot to death while...
When a university is endowed for $82,820,000, when a tycoon like Edward Stephen Harkness has given it $13,000,000 for an educational experiment, it is sure to be circumspect in its choice of treasurer. And Harvard University had to choose a new treasurer when Charles Francis ("Charlie Ad") Adams was appointed U. S. Secretary of the Navy...
Died. Col. John Reginald McLean of Phoenix, Ariz., mining engineer; of skull fracture, after an automobile accident; near Montecito, Calif. The accident occurred during the Colonel's honeymoon, one week after his marriage to Kathleen Burke Peabody, famed Wartime nurse, widow of the late Collar Tycoon Frederick Forrest Peabody (Cluett. Peabody...
Died. Asa Griggs Candler, 77, of Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola tycoon & philanthropist, brother of Methodist Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta; in Atlanta...