Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess, Helena, daughter of Cincinnati Railroad Tycoon Eugene Zimmerman, started divorce proceedings in England in 1931. When she let them lag the impatient Duke went to Cuba, got a quick divorce, married a onetime British actress named Kathleen Dawes...
...Franklin Roosevelt. Last week most of them were sure. The middling-sized businessmen who compose the rank & file of the Chamber of Commerce-who for more than a year have opposed many aspects of the New Deal, but who, for diplomatic reasons, have previously been kept by their tycoon leaders from expressing their feelings-had finally ridden roughshod over those who counseled them to speak softly, had passed a set of resolutions bluntly objecting to the Administration's banking, utilities and social security bills as well as AAA and Franklin Roosevelt's plan for extending...
...rolls all the way down to the 1920's. Its scene is "Midian," a western Pennsylvania town (Author Boyd's native place was near Harrisburg, Pa.). First part tells the tragic love story of Clara Rand, only daughter of Midian's coal tycoon. Clara was the greatest catch in town but she was also a character in her own right. When Fitz-Greene Rankin, a suave young newcomer from Philadelphia, began to court her, fascinated Clara put up little or no resistance; neither did her parents after they had investigated Fitz-Greene's ancestry and prospects...
Railway glamor such as even the 20th Century Limited never knew has ridden for half a century, still rides the Orient Express. For every tycoon deposited in Chicago and for every cinemactress brought to Broadway by the New York Central's famed train, the Orient Express has carried its kings, its Kreugers, its peacock Balkan generals and as many spies as frontier guards can be bribed to pass between Europe proper and Asia improper on the musty, rattle-banging train de luxe. There are also German travelers, omnivorous, industrious and good at figuring out. as one did recently, that...
...Institute was established eleven years ago by the late Colonel William Boyce Thompson, copper tycoon, yachtsman, good friend of Roosevelt I. A Red Cross mission to Russia which he headed and helped pay for had taught him the importance of food crops. His interest in ornamental plants was aroused when he came to select trees, shrubs and flowers for his 30-acre estate on the Hudson. Meditating the Rockefeller millions assigned to ameliorate and prolong human life, he decided to set up a station for studying the fundamental hows & whys of plant behavior. When Colonel Thompson died...