Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawyer Bennett's wealth?estimated at $10,000,000?came as an absolute windfall. He had been one of three zealous Sunday School teachers in his youth, the other two being a young woman and her brother. This three-cornered friendship was lifelong. The young woman married Lumber Tycoon E. B. Eddy. Presently he died. Mrs. Eddy and her brother, when they died, left 1.507 shares (control) of E. B. Eddy Co. to their pious friend "Dick" Bennett...
Died. Mrs. Mary A. Ladley Wrigley, 91, mother of Gum Tycoon William Wrigley Jr.; at Philadelphia...
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer & tycoon, defendant in a $1,000,000 patent suit brought against him by Herring-Curtiss Co. at Rochester, N. Y. was stricken suddenly with appendicitis. After four physicians had pronounced him in danger, the plaintiffs agreed to allow Defendant Curtiss to leave Rochester, go to Buffalo for an appendectomy, which, though badly needed, was successful...
...Warsaw was seen the best chance ? John North Willys & wife. He is a retired auto tycoon (Willys-Overland), many times a millionaire, a buyer of fine tapes tries. Their socialite daughter married a much-moneyed South American and wai presented to British royalty. They are culturally ambitious. In Warsaw, home of Paderewski, perhaps the grandeur that is the Garretts' at Rome could be duplicated...
Seldom has such a formidable array of tycoons been represented in a college activity. Tycoons great and small are included on the roster, new tycoons and old, Harvard and non-Harvard. Besides Founder-members George Fisher Baker and William Ziegler Jr., some of the old established Tycoon-Associates are: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, John Pierpont Morgan, Adolph S. Ochs, Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, Owen D. Young, Martin John Insull, Julius Rosenwald. The farflung scope of the new endowment was reflected in such names as H. Gordon Selfridge of London, James Drummond Dole of Honolulu, Hubert Fleishhacker of California...