Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mooted but unconfirmed is the tale that behind Dictator Carmona's sudden shoe decree looms a man named Bat'a. Famed, he, Thomas Bat'a, is the Shoe Tycoon of Czechoslovakia (TIME...
Died. Edward C. Cornish, 57, banking tycoon of West Palm Beach, Fla.; by suicide; in New Orleans. Wrote Banker Cornish, "A few years added or subtracted from eternity make no difference...
...Tennis Tycoon William Tatem Tilden II must have been pleasantly surprised that despite the ban placed upon his tennis playing activities by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association and extended last week by the International Lawn Tennis Federation, he could still play as an amateur in Russia or in Abyssinia. In the 35 principal tennis-playing countries of the world, including Cuba, Japan and Monaco, he will be considered a professional, because last summer he wrote reports of British tournaments for U. S. news-sheets...
Died. Richard Hudnut, 66, U. S. perfume tycoon, onetime Manhattan druggist; in Juan-les-Pins, France...
Died. William Hamlin Childs, 71, cleansing powder tycoon (Bon Ami) of Brooklyn, N. Y.; of acute appendicitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Childs casually accepted a formula in part payment of a debt, developed Bon Ami from it. Experts recalled that Lydia Pinkham's formula was accepted by the lady as part payment also...