Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emerging at last through a great door, they introduced and presented to the Liverymen as though they had never seen him before Glovemaker Collett of the Worshipful Company of glovers, a tycoon of British haberdashery. After congratulations all round, Stationer Lord Mayor Sir Percy Greenaway invited Glover Collett into the ornate Lord Mayor's coach, carried him off to a reception at the Mansion House while four trumpeters split the air with deafening blasts...
Died, Garvin Denby, 56, retired motor truck tycoon, brother of the late Teapot Dome Scapegoat Edwin Denby, son of onetime U. S. Minister to China Charles Denby; after an appendectomy; in Amityville...
...York Stock Exchange, Vice President Charles G. Taylor Jr. of Metropolitan Life (world's biggest), President Henry Bruere of Bowery Savings Bank (world's biggest), Joseph P. Day, if not the world's biggest, easily the world's most famed realtor, and many another tycoon of finance were to be found in the aldermanic chamber of Manhattan's City Hall. They were there to testify, not under subpoena, but on their own initiative-to argue with Samuel Untermyer, baiter of stock exchanges and great corporations. Mr. Untermyer had them at a disadvantage...
Married. Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, 34, carpet tycoon, international poloist; and Film Actress Mary Duncan, 28; in Manhattan...
...Errett Lobban Cord, the young man who is out to become his country's foremost transport tycoon by air, land and sea, last week added one more set-up to his system. Smith Engineering Co. of Cleveland was bought up by Cord Corp. which thereby acquired rights to manufacture Smith controllable pitch propellers. In airplanes, variable pitch propellers are like gear shifts in automobiles, allow engines to run at efficient speed under different load conditions...