Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bristle-whiskered Tycoon Doherty did not want to get control of the paper. In fact, he contracted to let 10% of his stock be without vote. What he wanted and got was the status of "special contributing editor," with the right to "insert as editorials anything that I think proper" without any censorship. He assumed personal responsibility for any libel suits he might cause, and the Journal-Post editors are entitled to dispute him in columns adjoining...
...flavor to be expected by Colyumist Doherty's colyums was indicated by a double-page spread in the Journal-Post, a copy of a fierce letter from Tycoon Doherty to the trustees of the Star, which had agitated the fight in Kansas to slash Cities Service gas rates. (The trustees-Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde, Jesse Clyde Nichols & Herbert B. Jones-had negotiated the sale of the Star by the estate of the late Founder William Rockhill Nelson to the present employes and management, headed by snake-hating George Baker Longan.) Excerpts from the letter...
...Marion B. Sharp (as business manager). After the elder Dickey's death (in January) the son and son-in-law had difficulty untangling the trusteeship and the estate. They were looking for someone with ready cash to go in with them or to buy outright when along came Tycoon Doherty. Estimated payment for his share...
Married. Mrs. Lena P. Curtiss, 51, widow of Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer & tycoon who died last year; and H. Sayre Wheeler, 39, Mayor of Opa Locka, Fla., President of Curtiss-Aero-Car Co. (bus-type trailers, built like an airplane cabin), onetime associate of Pioneer Curtiss; in Atlantic City...
Cyrus Stephen Eaton, retrenching tycoon, resigned as a director and member of the executive committee of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., also from the Chairmanship of Continental Shares, Inc. Last week the Eaton firm of Otis & Co. retired from the N. Y. Stock Exchange...