Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortescue-Massie case whipped up a great pother of official excitement and activity in Honolulu and Washington. Governor Lawrence M. Judd of Hawaii, island-born son of an island-born father, found himself under sharp, critical attack for Honolulu's lax law enforcement. Businessmen led by Walter Dillingham, railway tycoon, demanded a cleanup. Worthy citizens held mass meetings to protest against being "shushed"' by politicians who fairly screamed that Hawaii's raucous medley of race and sex was all an exaggeration. The Grand Jury met and dawdled while Governor Judd summoned a quick session of the Territorial Legislature, recommended...
Generoso Pope, the Manhattan sand & gravel tycoon who has bought up all but one of New York City's Italian-language daily newspapers (TIME, Sept. 14), potent in city politics and proud in the possession of three decorations from Benito Mussolini...
...afraid of bears is Tycoon Joseph Leiter of Chicago who owns a black one, Pansy, now vacationing with him in New Orleans...
...into a jerrybuilt bungalow they could not really afford. Then things began to happen. Susan, to her dismay, found she was going to have a baby. Dick lost his job. Payments on the furniture, the rent, were overdue. The baby was born prematurely, stillborn. Then Manufacturer Bulgin, villain in tycoon's clothing, an unsuccessful suitor for Susan's hand, rescued them by giving Dick a job but put Susan in a dangerous spot by sending him to a distant factory and keeping him there. Susan successfully repulsed Villain Bulgin's ponderous advances but gradually fell a victim...
...president of the Chamber of Commerce rose up last week from a 50? chair, clapped his hands and yelled. So did the Mayor and the owner of the Muehlebach Hotel and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank and a starch tycoon. Four thousand other Kansas Cityzens clapped as loudly, although the seats they rose from cost half as much-many of them as little as 10?. Result of all their yelling was that Chamber President Conrad H. Mann was able...