Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munitions Tycoon Sir Basil Zaharoff who owns much of Monte Carlo is supposed to have started, among other stories, the one about the Vatican being No. 2 stockholder in Monte's Casino. Last week octogenarian Sir Basil ("The Mystery Man of Europe") told reporters that he was going to make the first formal press statement of his career. "You can quote me as saying," he chuckled, "that I shall not die to please the Press! I am sincerely annoyed by all these reports of my illness. Just now I am feeling fine and enjoying my food...
...been recalled as Japan's Ambassador to the U. S., presented the Smithsonian Institution in Washington with a two-foot replica of George Washington's home at Mt. Vernon, made of mother-of-pearl and 13,000 pearls. A gift of Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese cultivated pearl tycoon, it had been part of his firm's exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair...
Married. Barren Gift Collier Jr., 24, eldest son of the car-card tycoon; and Barbara May, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
Died. Ryahei Murayama, 83, Japanese newspaper tycoon, publisher of the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun (circulation: 800,000) and the Osaka Asahi Shimbun (circulation: 1,100,000), "modernizer of the Japanese Press"; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...
...Manhattan newspaper carried a story that John Ringling was in a private hospital recovering from an amputation of both legs. Mr. Ringling, who was actually at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel recovering from an infected blister on his instep, was exceedingly angry. The huge moon-faced circus tycoon summoned the Press. Sitting in an armchair, he waved two thick, muscular legs at the reporters and shouted: "It's terrible to send out a story of that kind. I have many friends all over the country and they will be shocked when they read that...