Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was one English boat which "Tom" Sopwith could not come anywhere near beating. She was Velsheda, built for Chain-store Tycoon W. L. Stephenson by Charles E. Nicholson who designed the Shamrocks. Velsheda was rigged according to the new international rules which provide that racing craft may have light duralumin masts but must have full cabin accommodations for owners and crew, and must have gear-handling equipment on deck (not below deck as on Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's sleek Cup-winner Enterprise). Mr. Sopwith commissioned Designer Nicholson to build him a yacht even faster than Velsheda. He will...
Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy; Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War; Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico; Laird Bell Chicago attorney; Hendon Chubb of Manhattan's insurance firm of Chubb & Son; W. L. Clayton, Houston cotton tycoon; John Cowles, Des Moines publisher; Herman Lewis Ekern, onetime Attorney General of Wisconsin; Philip La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin; Mills Bee Lane, Savannah banker; Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois; Orrin K. McMurray, Dean of the University of California's law school; Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan; John C. Traphagen. president...
Died. Russell Henderson Henderson, 75, retired Scotch-born shipping tycoon, son of the late Founder William Henderson of Anchor Line (now controlled by Cunard), cousin of Great Britain's "Uncle Arthur" Henderson; of heart failure; in Paterson...
...Hyman Barnett Zaharoff, 63, a Lithuanian living in Ruislip, Middlesex. England, claimed that he was the son of 83-year-old Sir Basil Zaharoff (Basileios Zacharias), munitions tycoon, Europe's richest, most mysterious man. Hyman Barnett Zaharoff said he was born of a secret marriage between Sir Basil and a Russian girl named Haia Elka Karollinski. which was dissolved when he was seven...
Arrested on complaint of Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., son of the Manhattan oil tycoon, was his chauffeur, John Spinks, charged with forcing Son Rogers & wife out of their automobile into the rain during a night drive on a lonely road near Wayne, Pa., firing a pistol at them as he drove off. Chauffeur Spinks denied the charges, asserted that Son Rogers had kicked him in the back of the head and in the face when he was examining the car's lights. He did not know which of them had fired the gun, which belonged to Rogers, while they...