Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger game. If Mr. Grace received $1,623,000, how much might not Chairman Charles Michael Schwab get? But while the figure was successfully disclosed, it proved no point. For Mr. Schwab's stipend is a modest $150,000 a year, less than is paid many a lesser tycoon. And he is entitled to no bonus. Together with Mr. Schwab's salary, the Bethlehem attorneys surrendered their company's complete bonus list for last year. In each case the bonus is determined on a sliding scale based on net earnings - Mr. Grace's compensation amounting...
...Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie, Jr., Daughter Mary of the late Tobacco Tycoon Benjamin Newton Duke, set a record: $77,000 duty on personal foreign purchases (jewelry, clothing, souvenirs), largest individual duty ever paid in U. S. history. (Previous record...
Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain & stock tycoon, caught the last of the nine bandits who eight years ago looted his Downers Grove., Ill. home, left him smothering in a basement vault. Simon Rosenberg was the eighth to be captured (TIME, April 14). Last week, his brother, Caspar surrendered himself in Wheaton, Ill. Said he: "I've been hunted long enough. I am innocent and prepared to prove it. I can't go on any longer, always hiding. Cutten wins...
Died. Harry St. Francis Black, 66, Manhattan realty tycoon, board chairman of U. S. Realty & Improvement Co., a director of the Missouri, Kansas, Texas R. R., Savoy Plaza Corp., Bowman-Bilt-more Hotels Corp., National City Bank (Manhattan); in bed at his home near Huntington, L. I., by his own hand (re-volver...
...practice which had brought him business success should not be applied to the ticklish task of bringing up his only daughter. Lollie was pretty and had reached years of indiscretion. Her mother's clear feminine eye saw her wilful daughter with understanding but helpless despair. Nothing permanently troubled Tycoon Plimsoll's occasionally anxious optimism. The "big toad in the one-toad puddle of Lakeville," he could arrange situations to suit himself. Ineligible but attractive young men were shipped off to faraway posts; harmless, ambitious eligibles were invited to dinner. Father Plimsoll did not even shrink from employing...