Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointer owned by Golfer Glenna Collett Vare (see p. 27), ran the next heat worthy of notice. He, too, had the morning course where birds were more plentiful, scoring six finds to four by his brace mate, Air Circus. There was pathos in the next heat. Out came Oil Tycoon Jacob France's big pointer, Kremlin, winner of many a lesser stake, to try once more for the blue ribbon of bird dogdom. But his seven years hung heavy upon him. When famed Handler Chesley Harris released him at the starting signal, Kremlin just stood there. Then he tried...
...four birthday balls President Roosevelt had special interest. One was held in Georgia Hall, at Warm Springs Foundation, mainspring of the President's favorite charity. Another was held at Coral Gables, Fla. where Tycoon Henry L. Doherty, organizer of the birthday ball system, personally held sway. The third was a syndicate of birthday balls in Washington, to which 18,000 $2.50 tickets were sold entitling the bearers to visit balls at all or any of six hotels, to travel from ball to ball by free bus. Among the travelers were Guy Lombardo & orchestra, Cinemactress Ginger Rogers (who, though...
...Shanghai spoke last week of "the most severe blow to American business prestige in China since the founding of the International Settlement in 1843." They were referring to the fact that in Shanghai's U. S. Court grave, tee- totaling, confidence-inspiring U. S. insurance, banking & real estate Tycoon Frank Jay Raven, founder of the famed "Raven Interests," which once boasted assets of $70,000,000 (TIME, June 17), had just been convicted of embezzlement on seven counts and sentenced to five years in prison at McNeil Island, Wash...
...favorite of such light-hearted Manhattan newshawks as Frank Ward O'Malley was Jacques Lebaudy, son of a French sugar tycoon, who in 1903 hatched a scheme for irrigating the Sahara Desert, proclaimed himself "Jacques I, Emperor of the Sahara," fitted out an expedition to conquer his new province. Routed, he sailed for the U. S., established himself in Westbury, L. I., furnished copy on dull days by such stunts as uniforming and drilling an army of messenger boys and farmhands. In 1919 his "Empress" shot him dead...
Nicholas Holtz was a fiend in tycoon form, but he was also a potent and respectable citizen. The unseen tsar of a million destinies, he had in his grasp three U. S. towns, complete with their industries, police force, politics. In devious but sufficiently direct ways he controlled everything that went on therein. Of the many simmering pies to which his finger had the prime right of poke, his armament industry was the pet. And armaments meant not simply steel but explosives, gas, chemicals...