Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seeking Divorce. Bror Gustave Dahlberg, 51, Swedish-born U. S. sugar tycoon, president of Celotex Co.; from Mary Alexander Dahlberg, one-book author (Dagger); in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Texas-reared Mrs. Dahlberg refused to live in the U. S., prefers Europe...
...Among the 27,000 political prisoners in jail last week was Tycoon Purushotanbas Thakureas, reputed Bombay's richest cotton broker, and Mr. J. M. Sen Gupta who was Mayor of the great city of Calcutta when taken into custody...
Died. Mrs. Carrie Bell Reed Walsh, 65, Washington socialite, relict of the late mining tycoon Thomas Francis Valsh; of pneumonia; in Washington. Her daughter, Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, is suing the publisher of the Washington Post for divorce. Longtime Belgophiles, the Walshes incorporated a special suite in their mansion for the late King Leopold, but he was forced to cancel his trip to the U. S. Later, however, King Albert and the Prince of Whales were among Mrs. Walsh's guests...
When sport-loving Tycoon Karbon and his cinema-star mistress Leore smashed up in a motor accident, it was a big day for the town. Dr. Persenthein sewed up the actress' cut lip; Elisabeth nursed Karbon back to health. Karbon fell in love with her in a mild way; she took him seriously and was ready to run off with him, when suddenly her husband's world fell about his ears. In a medical journal he read that others also had his Idea, had far outstripped him in carrying it through. Loyal Elisabeth kissed Romance goodbye, told herself her domestic...
...early billboard-advertising tycoon of California, Walter Varney is advertising-wise. When, as the first airmail contractor in the Pacific Northwest (1925), he found people reluctant to send their letters by plane, Varney advertised. Last year he sold his well-developed system (Salt Lake City-Pasco-Portland-Spokane-Seattle) to United Air Lines, whose transcontinental system it joined at Salt Lake City, turned his attention to the highly competitive San Francisco-Los Angeles route, already operated by three other airlines on a three-hour flying schedule. He put highspeed Lockheed Orions on the run and lopped a full hour from...