Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. John William Mackay, employe and son of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay; and Josephine Gwendolyn Rose, Manhattan socialite, great-granddaughter of William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed, famed Tammany ringmaster; in Westbury...
...books. In Manhattan last week it was discovered that a pile of old books hastily sold (or, perhaps, cunningly bought) contained a first-edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders of the Rue Morgue-the third such copy known to exist. An anonymous collector, presumably Tycoon Owen D. Young, immediately snatched the find...
Earlier in the week Viscount Rothermere, England's most potent newspaper tycoon, once Conservative, now Liberal, blatantly and confidently predicted in his Daily Mail the fall of the Conservative Government...
Bishop Cannon is the first to receive the Christian Herald's award, which hereafter will be annual. Since the Christian Herald is the largest Protestant weekly in the U. S. its award is a matter of no small moment. In time, Editor High and Chain-Store Tycoon James Cash Penney, who is president of the Christian Herald Association, Inc., hope to have their award rated as a sort of Nobel prize for religion. Unlike the Nobel prizes, however, Christian Herald awards will go to none but U. S. citizens...
...contiguity of Tycoon Penney and President-Elect Hoover, who chose the Penney mansion at Miami for his pre-inaugural retreat, added an emphasis to the Cannon award. It was perhaps circumstantial, perhaps significant, that a close and potent friend of Mr. Hoover's should regard Dry fervor as religious service...