Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriner Stoddard Eccles grew up in Logan, Utah, a rich & pious Mormon- grandson of a covered-wagon pioneer, son of a lumber-banking-utilities tycoon. At 19, graduated from Brigham Young College, he went as a missionary to Scotland. He came home, put his capital with the capital of Browning-firearms heirs to start the First Security system which operated 28 banks (now consolidated into twelve) in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming. He became vice president and treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar Co. and headed a construction company which got a big job out of Hoover Dam.* Last week, aged 43, Marriner Eccles...
...executive committee since 1910, because he gave it $1,000,000 cash in 1928, George Blumenthal, retired senior partner of the firm of Lazard Frères, was last week elected seventh president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He succeeds the late Furniture Tycoon William Sloane Coffin (TIME...
...author to his brother-in-law, Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson, who had a number of broadside copies printed at his own expense. The manuscript remained in the Nicholson family until the Judge's granddaughter Rebecca Post Shippen sold it in 1927 to Henry Walters, Baltimore railroad tycoon (Atlantic Coast Line, Louisville & Nashville). The price was said to be around...
...career and live with her. He promises to show his fiancée when he finds a girl who does not mispronounce Rockefeller. With these gentle snobbish strokes, the stage is set for the introduction of the nephew's girl (Peggy Fears). He meets her at a vulgar tycoon's party next door, does not know that she is married. Wandering into the second act set, a superb garden with two great oaks and gardenia roses, Miss Fears falls in love with garden, house, young man. When she pronounces Rockefeller correctly he straightway takes her to his aunt...
...salaries) from Paramount's budget. Last year when he resigned that job John Hertz swore he was going back for good to his big estate in Gary, Ill., about 40 mi. northwest of Chicago. Now his entry into Lehman Brothers marks the death of John Hertz, Chicago taxi tycoon, the birth of John Hertz, Manhattan banker...