Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie Jr., 34, fun-loving Manhattan and Philadelphia socialite-sportsman, divorced secretly last March by Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle, niece of the late great tobacco tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck"') Duke, daughter of the late Benjamin Newton Duke who left her over $50,000,000 in 1929; and Mrs. Margaret Boyce Thompson Schulze, 34, only daughter of the late mining tycoon Col. William Boyce Thompson who died last June (TIME, July 7, 1930) leaving an estate of over $85,000,000: in London...
...feature-writer has culled extra money by writing of the romance of Mr. Woolworth's rise. Yet there was little romance to it. He was a frugal, practical merchant with a good idea to work on. Success brought him the ailment common to many another U. S. tycoon-a Napoleonic complex. In 1913 this found expression. That year he built for himself a great monument, the Woolworth building, internationally hailed as a "Cathedral of Commerce." On the 24th floor he placed the company's offices. His private office represented a $35,000 departure from frugality...
Born. To Samuel Insull, Chicago utilities tycoon; his first grandson, Samuel Insull III, son of Samuel Insull Jr., 31, and Mrs. Adelaide Pierce Insull, 31; in Chicago. Weight...
...West End playhouses: the Apollo, Adelphi, Shaftesbury, Gaiety, His Majesty's) for a reputed price of $2,000,000-$1,000,000 in cash. Control of London's biggest theatre bloc is now in the hands of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, son of a South African diamond tycoon. Already the owner of the new Cambridge Theatre, Sir Harold plans to acquire two more London playhouses. All these purchases, however, are real state ventures. He will not produce...
...distress of the Lambs Club last summer (TIME, July 7) pessimists might see in the N. V. A. club-house's closing another indication of the paupery of the theatrical profession. Bu the N. V. A. club has always run an annual deficit. For years Edward Franklin Albee variety tycoon (Keith-Albee), footed thi losses until his death in 1930. A recent drive to get members to pay their bad bills amassed some $60,000, insufficient to keep the place open. It will probably b turned into a hotel...