Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Martha Skinner of South Hadley, Mass., granddaughter of the late silk tycoon William Skinner; and Dr. Victor Wesley Logan of Manhattan; in Holyoke, Mass...
Died. Terrance Waldman, 4, & Benjamin Waldman, 1, sons of Milton S. Waldman, assistant editor of the London Mercury, grandsons & heirs of the late copper tycoon Benjamin Guggenheim who perished on the Titanic; in a 14-story fall from a penthouse roof; in Manhattan. Mrs. Waldman (Barbara Hazel Guggenheim) held the younger son on her lap when a tussle caused the fall...
...13th Street near Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, John Markle, anthracite tycoon, helped Commander Evangeline Booth, of the Salvation Army, with a bit of digging, then turned, spade in hand, to acknowledge the cheers of many a Salvation Army cadet. Ground had been broken for the $500,000 John & Mary Markle residence-hotel for businesswomen. Said Henry Waters Taft, second youngest of the four Taft brothers and chairman of the Salvation Army Advisory Board: "He gives twice who gives quickly . . . he gives thrice who gives meekly...
Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...
Quickly, they admitted Pioneers Ford, Schwab, Rosenwald, Eastman, Firestone and Speakers Swift, Taylor, Gifford, Mitchell and many another U. S. businessman to tycoonship. And with enthusiasm they claimed Honor Guest Lord Melchett as Foremost and Mightiest British Tycoon...