Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really rich and potent tycoon likes the idea of sitting on a "sub-committee," and so last week the three sub-committees of the second Dawes Committee-now sitting in Paris to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.)-were rechristened "Informal Groups...
When the odious "subcommittee" ghost had been pretty well laid, it was revealed that for almost a week previously John Pierpont Morgan had been sitting in on an informal group chairmanned by Baron Revelstoke, the softspoken, intensely aristocratic tycoon who heads the great British banking firm of Baring Brothers...
...very soon appeared that this informal group was the inner banking circle of the committee-for with Mr. Morgan and Lord Revelstoke sit Dr. Carl Melchior, partner in Germany's great house of Warburg, Belgian Tycoon Emile Francqui, and Economist Antonio Suvitch, personal representative of Benito Mussolini...
Among ten baronetcies bestowed last week the only one of note went to famed Motors Tycoon William R. Morris, "England's Ford," maker of the staunch little Morris-Cowley and Morris-Oxford...
...delegates of the Conservative Party Congress who had unanimously chosen Worm Rowlands as "Chairman," next chose as a "Vice Chairman" the world's biggest Steamship Tycoon, Baron Kylsant...