Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Figuring that some stronger man must be behind a leader who looks like Adolf Hitler, groping feature writers have for months been serving up Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen (pronounced Tissen) as the shrewd Maécenas who "bought" the Nazis when they were poor, the Master Mind of National Socialism...
Just how Herr Thyssen could retain his purchased grip, once the Nazis had all Germany at their mercy, few gropers have tried to explain. Great was their perturbation last week as Tycoon Thyssen popped up at Buenos Aires, 5,900 miles from Berlin...
Mack Sennett had a big voice, but he found it easier to get a job in a choir than on the stage of the Metropolitan. Once when he was singing in John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s Baptist Church his thunderous diapason is said to have made the old tycoon whisper to a retainer: "Did you bring an umbrella?" From choir-singing Sennett drifted into burlesque, then heard there were jobs to be had in the infant cinema industry. He was a member of David Wark Griffith's Biograph troupe when it went to Los Angeles...
...Keystone Comedy Co. Thanks to a totally inefficient Russian cameraman, his first three pictures were not fit to be seen. But when he began to go ahead he went fast. During his first year as an independent producer Sennett made 104 successful comedies. Soon Mack Sennett was a tycoon and had his heart's desire-a huge bathtub in his office. This tub was a favored spot for conferences; it was a mark of favor to be invited to share it. Keystone Comedies gave the U. S. three standard favorites: the chase (most Sennett pictures ended...
...Satan attends morning service at a fashionable church with a tycoon who is the principal pew-holder, consequently gets away with some very questionable behavior...