Word: tycoons
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Died. Samuel Mather, 80, shipping, mining and steel tycoon (Pickands, Mather & Co.), first citizen of Cleveland; of heart disease; in Cleveland. Son of Samuel Livingston Mather who founded Cleveland Iron Mining Co. and the family fortune, he was a famed philanthropist, a director of U. S. Steel and many another great corporation. Holder of 60,000 shares of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., he battled Cyrus Stephen Eaton over a proposed merger with Bethlehem Steel Corp., won last week when the project was finally dropped. Steelman Mather's 15-year-old grandson took his own life (hanging) last month (TIME...
Died. Mrs. Henry Clay Frick, the one-time Adelaide Howard Childs, widow of the late Pittsburgh steel tycoon; after a brief illness; in Prides Crossing, Mass. With her death, the Frick art collection, its $15,000,000 endowment and the Fifth Avenue mansion in which it is housed pass over to "the use and benefit of all persons...
Died. Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 81, most famed of British sportsmen, self-made tea tycoon; in his sleep after a ten-day cold; in London. Born in a Glasgow tenement, he went to the U. S. at 15 seeking his fortune, returned when he had saved $500. He had worked in a grocery shop in New York, saw possibilities in the U. S. way of displaying and selling green groceries. His first shop in Glasgow was a success, with Proprietor Lipton behind the counter in white overalls and an apron. From the beginning he believed in advertising, kept his shop...
Messmore Kendall, middle-aged lawyer, real estate tycoon and producer who owns a home at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. and a party apartment over the Capitol Theatre, presented The Breadwinner. The show was chosen as Play-of-the-Month by Play-choice...
When a reputable man of letters such as John Drinkwater writes a flattering biography of such a tycoon as Carl Laemmle (TIME, May 4), angels weep, men laugh knowingly. When famed and popular Author André Maurois writes a no less flattering account of his still-extant compatriot, Marshal of France Hubert Lyautey, angels may control themselves but men will exchange speculative glances. There is no comparison between the two books, as jobs, nor between the two men who form their subjects. But after reading Lyautey and remembering Ariel, you cannot help feeling that this horn-toot by Andr...