Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wisconsin. All night long the Wisconsin Republicans wrangled in a state convention. The factions were the old-time LaFollette progressives and the followers of Walter Jodok Kohler, plumbing fixture tycoon, Hooverite nominee for Governor. At dawn the Kohlerites had forced an endorsement of Hooverism-the first time in 20 years that the Wisconsin Republicans have been "regular" in a presidential election...
Married. Esther du Pont, daughter of Lammot du Pont, Delaware chemicals & explosives tycoon; to Campbell Weir of the Bellanca Airplane Co. of New Castle, Del.; in Wilmington...
...lifelong gifts to charity were noteworthy, including $300,000 which she gave with Clarence W. Mackay to the University of Nevada. One of the three grandchildren present at her dea.th was Mrs. Irving Berlin (Ellin Mackay), whose marriage to the Tin Pan alley tycoon led to an estrangement from her father...
Discreet, even reticent, the Wall Street Journal deceived no one who knows the coal mining district of Scranton, Pa., and neighboring, suburban Dalton. For as every Scrantonian knows, a major glory of Dalton is the large, old house (recently remodeled) of Salt Tycoon Mortimer B. Fuller. And as every saltman knows, the Fullers (Grandfather Edward L., Father...
Samuel Insull, public utility tycoon, purchased Mellody Farm for $2,500,000, last week. Mellody Farm is not Tin Pan Alley.* Nor is it a chicken, dairy or fruit farm. It is the bit of land which Mrs. Jonathan Ogden Armour loved most in the world-her magnificent 845-acre estate near Lake Forest, Ill. It was sold to help pay the creditors of the late Mr. Armour, honest grain-man and meatpacker. Mr. Insull and his syndicate of 24 Chicagoans will divide it into smaller estates...