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Word: tycoons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money back of such generous art patronage was made by James Duval Phelan's father, who came to the U. S. from Queen's County, Ireland, sailed for California in the Gold Rush of '49, accumulated $10,000,000 as merchant, banker, real estate tycoon. Son James never cared for business, was nevertheless one of San Francisco's first citizens. At the height of the 1906 Fire, intrepid James Phelan filled his snorting, blunt-snouted Mercedes with dynamite, gallantly chugged out to the Potrero district, blasted a path that halted the fire at Van Ness Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Montalvo's Maecenas | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Born 55 years ago in the Italian province of Catanzaro, white-maned Giuseppe Donato has long enlivened Philadelphia with artistic disputation. In 1915 he sued Chocolate Tycoon Milton Snavely Hershey for refusing to accept a marble group called Dance of Eternal Spring which he had ordered for a fountain on his front lawn. A jury awarded Sculptor Donato $25,000. Mr. Hershey persuaded the City of Harrisburg to take the Donato fountain. Cried he: "I don't want this damned thing anywhere in Hershey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Patina Protector | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith, 25, daughter of Towel Tycoon Joseph F. Cannon, onetime wife of the late Zachary Smith Reynolds (Camels) and of Brandon Smith (real estate) of Charlotte, N. C.; and Lindsay Plumly, 26, nephew of onetime President Bowman Gray of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) ; at Belair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Historic Wild West" as pressagent, he jumped at it with both feet. Once in his niche, he was never tempted to seek a higher pinnacle. The late Ivy Lee, then a hard-working but undistinguished Manhattan newshawk, gave Fellows the benefit of his own ambitious advice about becoming a tycoon; Fellows let it lie, went on down his own primrose path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sesquipedalian | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...hands and three years' interneship behind him. When he set up practice for himself, waited for patients to come, it seemed a long wait. The family in whose house he boarded and had his office were a no-account lot. Beverly, pretty heiress of the town's tycoon, brought Chris his first patient-her dog. She and Chris quarrelled and fell in love immediately. Chris was too proud and poor to do anything about it, but Beverly wangled him the job of city doctor. When he got an appointment as surgeon at the hospital he had his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medicine Man | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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