Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broderick. onetime New York State superintendent of banks; Ronald Ransom, executive vice president of Fulton National Bank of Atlanta; John K. McKee, onetime receiver for National banks in Ohio and Pennsylvania, for the last two and one half years chief examiner for RFC; Ralph W. Morrison. Texas Hydro-electric tycoon, who in 1933 was one of the U. S. delegates to the World Monetary & Economic Conference at London...
...Pixy," If Miss Hayes had been born to a Cincinnati soap tycoon and finished at Farmington, she would probably have turned out to be one of those rare girls who for two or three seasons reign supreme at all the best college proms in the East, not because of good looks or a reputation for cuddlesomeness but because of unmistakable social charm...
Pete was thought to be the bastard of Old Man Bayliss, soundly-hated lumber tycoon who ground his workers' faces in the sawdust and worse. Pete was even suspected of being Bayliss' spy. When a lumberman was killed because of faulty machinery, Pete, who was handy, came in for a thoroughly popular licking. Pete took it and said nothing, but when he had proved his paternity he went on to show his brotherhood by joining the workers fight against Boss Bayliss. Mario, the Filipino who had beaten Pete, was almost killed by vigilantes. But the organization...
Died. Carlos Ortiz Basualdo, 37, Argentine cattle tycoon; husband of Leonora Hughes, onetime Long Island telephone operator who became the dancing partner of the late, famed Maurice Mouvet; by drowning, when his speedboat overturned in Lake Nahuel Huapi in the Southern Argentine Andes...
Died. Joel Owsley Cheek, 83, retired coffee tycoon (Maxwell House), church worker, philanthropist; of pneumonia; in Jacksonville, Fla. After years of peddling coffee from house to house on horseback he organized Cheek-Neal Coffee Co., retired in 1928 when the company was sold to General Foods at a reputed price...