Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tutor in U. S. geography. His person is the pointer, public prints are the textbook. Last week the President announced that he would spend his holidays on Sapeloe Island, off the coast of Georgia. Researches forthwith exhumed a history stretching continuously from the Mayan age to the U. S. tycoon age of today...
Howard Earle Coffin, retired motors tycoon, bought Sapeloe 17 years ago and developed it the way other tycoons (Goulds, McAlpins, Rockefellers, Drexels, Fords, Carnegies, du Ponts, et al.) have developed Jekyl, St. Simon's and other Golden Islands.* He built a mansion Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe...
Colorful and significant was a sidelight cast upon the whole situation by famed Fight Tycoon Tex Rickard. "In 1913," said he last week, "I came up through the Argentine with twenty cowboys, 50,000 head of cattle and a train of about fifty wagons, with the idea of crossing into Paraguay across the Pilcomayo River, the boundary between Paraguay and the Argentine. Well, as soon as we got into Paraguay we came across a lot of forts, all filled with Bolivians. And these Bolivians-soldiers they were-said that if we didn't turn back they'd shoot...
People who like to sniff the famed perfumes of FrançoisCoty will be glad to know that the paper of which he makes a hobby, L'Ami du Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick...
Married. Raymond T. Baker, famed Nevadan cosmopolite, recently divorced by Mrs. Margaret Emerson Vanderbilt Baker, thrice-married turfwoman (TIME, Oct. 15); to Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of the late auto-tycoon Horace E. Dodge, who recently divorced James H. R. Cromwell, Manhattan banker; in Manhattan...