Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However poor Fox Theatres may appear to some people on a strictly investment basis, the greatest asset the company has, and one that should appeal to Fox patrons, is the management of William Fox.* Famed are the legends of his rise from Hungarian Jew newsboy to Long Island tycoon. Most significant of the factors in his story is that the Fox accomplishment has been singlehanded. Blustering, driving, he makes his own decisions, rapidly follows them out. Scorning most social customs, he enjoys golf despite a Kaiser-like arm, has thrice holed...
Prime Minister Mussolini of Italy last week chewed on a bitter-sweet contract and said a sour thanks. The contract bore the signatures of his Ambassador to the U. S. Giacomo De Martino, and Deputy Amedeo Perna, Italian dentist-politician, and the level script of George Eastman, Kodak & film tycoon. It sweetly gave $1,000,000 to the Italian Government to build and equip a dental clinic in Rome. At the same time it bitterly implied the rottenness and crookedness of Italian children's teeth. And it hobbled the champing Mussolini to certain stout stipulations...
...invidious asked why Mr. Eastman gave the clinic to Rome instead of to some U. S. city and pointed to Murry Guggenheim, copper tycoon, as a paragon. Mr. Guggenheim and his wife Leonie jointly gave $4,000,000 last summer to build free dental clinics in Manhattan (TIME, July 1). Last week Mr. & Mrs. Guggenheim purchased land for the Manhattan project...
Except in Japan, TIME knows of no earlier use of Tycoon. But as many an oldster recalls, there appeared in 1882 an extremely popular comic opera by Willard Spenser entitled The Little Tycoon...
...born in the largest house in Washington Square, Manhattan, that his golf is poor, his marksmanship good, that he likes to fish, loves to travel. Members of the Engineering Foundation know that he was elected to its chairmanship not because he looms as a potent public utility tycoon but because he is an able mining engineer. In 1894 with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting engineers for American Water Works & Electric Co. Probably unconscious of the virtual homonym, Water Works Engineer Porter chose as head of the foundation...