Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gifford, he added 19 important persons, brought the total to 84. Among those appointed last week were: James Rudolph Garfield, son of the 20th U. S. President; Col. Leonard Porter Ayres, Cleveland economist; Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago banker; Carl Raymond Gray, Union Pacific president; Stuart Cramer, North Carolina textile tycoon; W. H. Maytag, Iowa washing machine maker, and John Walter Drake, Detroit motormaker...
...Emmerson's unemployment committee which last year raised $4,956,534 in five months, reorganized and set about collecting $8,800,000 for this winter. Out of his job as president of Middle West Utilities Co. stepped energetic, 30-year-old Samuel Insull Jr., son of the power tycoon, to direct the drive. In his Otis Building office in Chicago, with his dark hair rumpled and his shirt sleeves rolled up, young Mr. Insull explained: "Accomplishment comes before formality. We want to keep a friendly and informal spirit right along. There's a spiritual side to helping those...
This year Jacob Fred Schoellkopf, Buffalo power and dye tycoon, contributed a gold medal, named for his late father, to honor important industrial research. First Schoellkopf medalist, named last week, is President Frank Jerome Tone, 63, of Carborundum Co., who helped develop that and other synthetic abrasives, who originated the first commercial process for producing silicon metal (used in electrical transformers, alloys, hydrogen manufacture), who possesses "to an unusual degree the rare combination of the qualities of the pure scientist, the plant engineer, and the successful business administrator." Graduates of Hill School and Cornell of six or seven years...
...horrible little girl cinemactress makes a monkey out of Cinema Tycoon Herman Gershky (Carl Laemmle...
...Francisco attorney and politician; of a heart attack; in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Calif. Son of an engineer employed by owners of the famed "Big Bonanza" mine, he was an intimate boyhood friend of Clarence Hungerford Mackay. The late Mrs. John William Mackay, widow of the Comstock Lode tycoon, was his godmother...