Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Switzerland in 1528 he swanked it about Basle in furs and velvets, bought a fine house for his wife and family, then returned to England in 1530. As far as is known it was the Tudor tycoon Thomas Cromwell (whose portrait by Holbein now hangs in Manhattan's Frick Gallery) who first introduced this skillful German to bluff King Hal. Henry took to Holbein immediately, made him his court painter in 1537, trusted him sufficiently to send him to Duren in 1539 to paint a reportorial portrait of Anne of Cleves whom Henry was thinking of making...
...Stuttgart, which Robert Bosch has showered with benefactions, the Bosch birthday is practically a municipal holiday. Last week in the best Nazi style his workers gave him a monster mass reception, which the aging tycoon thoroughly enjoyed. Vigorous, he still takes an active interest in company affairs, can still be seen almost any day trotting about his huge plant, can still climb 6,000 feet for a shot at a chamois on his great game pre-serve in Bavaria...
...bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President Insull's control of the board, it began to look as if the old man might become a mere figurehead. Last week A. B. C. announced that the 76-year-old tycoon had resigned the presidency, remaining only as a director. In his place, not as president but as general manager, the company put Clarence Leich, part owner of two A. B. C. stations in Evansville, Ind. To a newshawk who asked reasons for his resignation, Mr. Insull snapped testily...
...made of sewer pipes. A one-time prosperous publicity agent, a ruined broker, a "wobbly," a Texas farmer pool their potential resources and, after a meeting, get enough supplies on credit to start work. A one time Socialist and Alaska miner named Sig Soren persuades old Theophilus Fleming, utilities tycoon, that the movement holds no threat to business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists, well-to-do radicals. The EPIC campaign shakes...
...eagerness by telling her quite frankly what he thought of women who began flirtations they were not prepared to finish. With Arnold Iselin (Paul Lukas) she finished her next one in Biarritz. To get her back. Sam worked with the same uncompromising power that had made him a motor tycoon, but their reconciliation was interrupted by Kurt (Gregory Gave). This time she asked for a divorce. Kurt, she felt sure, would extirpate the middle age she dreaded so, and which Sam seemed so ready to accept. A footsore, lonely Sam was being comforted in Italy by the platonic favors...