Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First. Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France announced at Paris that Tycoon Owen D. Young had accepted a joint Allied and German invitation to sit on the new Committee of Experts as one of two U. S. members. This meant that the revised Dawes Plan will probably go down in history as the Young Plan. Among those who might object would not be Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. Just and modest, General Dawes has already said (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) that the original Dawes Plan was largely the work of one of his colleagues on the Reparations Commission, none other...
Throughout the U. S. smart citizens and radio listeners know that Tycoon Young is Chairman of General Electric Co. and Chairman of Radio Corp. of America. Out on the farm in Van Hornesville, N. Y., where he was born, and where he now raises prize cattle, rustics know Mr. Young as a tall, deliberate, loosely built man of 54 who was once a lazy plowboy.* Gaffers recall how his father had to borrow the $1,000 which helped Owen to an education, world potency, historic fame...
...Carolinas as a lumber State, not far behind piney Georgia, whose output is more than a billion board-feet per annum. And, though few people know it, huge herds of beef cattle range the plains of Florida's northern interior. Many a Texas steer, like many a tired tycoon, goes to Florida...
Divorced. Howard Henry Spaulding of Chicago; by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charged habitual drunkenness...
Died. Irving Berlin Jr., 24 days old, grandson of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay, son of Songwriter Irving Berlin & Mrs. Ellin Mackay Berlin of Manhattan; of a heart attack; on Christmas morning, in Manhattan...