Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Chamber absolutely in pandemonium Deputy Jean Hennessy, brandy tycoon, jumped up and shouted: "Henry IV, greatest of all the Bourbon Monarchs of France, was given wine in his nursing bottle...
Died. Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, 50, onetime wife of telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay and of Surgeon Joseph Augustus Blake, mother-in-law of Composer Irving Berlin "Always," "Russian Lullaby"); of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Patrick Jay Hurley was last week urged to buy blue dress uniforms for all Army enlisted men as a means of improving their morale, quickening their esthetic sense. The suggestion was conveyed to him by Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, relict of Representative John Jacob Rogers. Lowell textile tycoon. Lest anyone think she had the selfish motive of trying to help the textile industry, Mrs. Rogers explained: "Wartime khaki uniforms are drab and tiresome to the eye. . . ." Moreover, she pointed out, blue uniforms would call for black shoes, and orders for shoes are needed quite as badly by manufacturers...
Died. Sir Thomas Robert Dewar, 66, Baron of Homestall, Lieutenant of the City of London, sportsman, famed dinner-wit, tycoon son of Whiskey Tycoon John Dewar; after a three-week illness; at Homestall, East Grinstead, Sussex...
Poet Hart Crane, young (31) but with greying hair, is native to Garrettsville, 0., son & heir to Candy Tycoon Clarence Crane. Hart Crane preferred poetry to business, went to Manhattan (1922), supported life by writing copy for J. Walter Thompson, Sweet's Architectural Catalog, others. In 1924, living in a house on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, Poet Crane gazed at the Brooklyn Bridge, thought of writing a long Whitmanesque poem on the U. S. While he wrote it he moved about to Paterson, N. J., Isle of Pines (Cuba), Pasadena, Paris, Marseilles. Another book: White Buildings...