Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once morbid Japanese ripe for Death would dispatch themselves with a dagger, elaborately disemboweling themselves in a ritual of exquisite pain. Today such heroic acts of hara-kiri ("belly-cut") are rare. Suicide has gone cheap, and last week Japan's go-getting suicide tycoon, owl-eyed Jinnojo Hayashi, scored another coup. For the second time this year sensation-hungry tourists at his Suicide Point witnessed a triple plunge into the sulphur-stinking maw of Death...
Every so often mercurial Edward of Wales gives wealthy British Islanders an after-dinner rebuke for their leaden business methods, their notorious failure in this Modern World to pioneer (TIME, June 1, 1931). The stuffy sort of tycoon to whom H. R. H. seems fated to talk simply cannot do as the high-spirited Empire Salesman advises. Last week, however, observers noted three 1935 British Pioneers going great guns...
Before the lecture a group of reporters went to interview Dr. Einstein at the home of his host, Nathaniel Spear, Pittsburgh furniture tycoon. They found him sitting at ease by a gas-log fire, not nearly so nonplused and frightened by the U. S. Press as he was four years ago. He understood the questions perfectly, groped now and then for an English word or phrase but seldom for a reply. Mr. Spear, confined to bed upstairs, sent down a request that the eminent man should pose for photographs beside a bust of Socrates in the parlor...
...late great Marcus Loew, Jewish fur dealer who became a tycoon in the cinema world...
...Jumped to the conclusion that Great Britain may soon recognize Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo when London's Conservative Press received with acclaim last week a" rabidly pro-Manchukuo report of 12,000 words turned in by the British trade mission to Manchukuo under Wool Tycoon Lord Barnby. Reputedly the Barnby commissioners bagged $40,000,000 worth of Japanese orders for steel alone. Cried the Tory Morning Post: "Manchukuo is a permanent fact to which the world must accommodate itself, whether it likes it or not. No useful purpose is to be served by preserving the diplomatic...