Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...firm stand by NRAdministrator S. Clay Williams, tobacco tycoon, over the protests of William Green...
Ludwig Bauer, in reanimating these old horrors, darts back & forth continually between two points of view: the things which Leopold II tacitly approved in the Belgian Congo were unspeakable; Leopold was admirable as a great organizer, a promoter in the grand manner, a veritable tycoon among kings, a political genius of the "rarest and most dangerous kind-the genius which does not wish to reveal itself as such." When Herr Bauer is taking morality as his touchstone, Leopold shrivels before one's eyes; when he is taking energy as his talisman, his subject swells to the proportions...
...have made life worth living for Scot MacDonald since he broke with his lifetime Labor friends to found the "National Government." Without the heartening balls and banquets in his honor at Londonderry House, Widower MacDonald would be a lonely old man indeed. Last week Lord Londonderry, potent coal tycoon that he is, moved to save Seaham for Ramsay in the next election...
Dean Wallace Brett Donham is not only an administrator, a business economist, a fancier of Cape Cod houses and the works of Lewis Carroll, but also a banker, a director of half a dozen corporations, a close friend of many a tycoon. He established the case system of instruction, designed to ground students solidly in the practical, day-to-day problems of big corporations. Immensely proud is he of his school's high standing among corporate employers, its prowess in finding jobs for graduates in prosperity or depression...
...Williams College, in charge of a student paleontological expedition to Yucatan; three Williams seniors, including Manhattan Socialite William Dwight Symmes; Rev. Dr. Francis L. Frost, longtime rector of St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, Staten Island. Notable survivors included two daughters of Charles Stinson Pillsbury, Minneapolis flour tycoon...