Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India, and now is a great public utility tycoon-in short, from the Earl of Birkenhead, it was the gesture of a genius who would not truckle to vulgar respectability...
...week this prodigal orator, statesman, financier landed in Manhattan. With him landed also Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, onetime (1924-1928) Secretary of State for War, Sir Harry Duncan McGowan and many another. But no affair of state took Lord Birkenhead to the U. S. Not as statesman but as tycoon came he. For last year, perhaps foreseeing the exit of the conservative ministry and the advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties Trust...
...story ends with Tycoon Rarick eating milk and crackers to the strains of "Laugh, Clown, Laugh...
...railroads. It was receiving money from political parties for candidacy support. But this bothered Editor Older not at all. Graft was running the railroads, governing Labor, electing city officials. Fearless, ambitious, fight-loving, Editor Older set out to purify San Francisco. His great and good friend Rudolph Spreckels, sugar tycoon, agreed to help him. They found lined up against them potent local powers. Patrick Calhoun, hardheaded, two-fisted president of United Railroads; Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, tall, handsome, the people's idol; Abraham Ruef, a Hebrew Schmitz henchman. "These men are crooks," said Editor Older. "We must prove it," answered...
Engaged. Gilbert Colgate Jr. of Manhattan, son of the cosmetics tycoon; and Miss Nina Haven King, Manhattan socialite...