Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dinner at Eight (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer). An aging film actor, planning to recoup his fortunes on the stage; Lord & Lady Ferncliffe, just over from London and on their way to Florida; a thick-skinned tycoon named Dan Packard and his Tenth Avenue wife; Dr. and Mrs. Talbot; an elderly actress, Carlotta Vance, trying to squeeze an income out of her stocks: these, with her husband, her daughter, Paula, and her daughter's pleasant young fiance are the people for whom Mrs. Millicent Jordan has her cook concoct an aspic in the shape of a British lion, with flags...
Married. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 23, son of the shipping, brewing, real estate and publishing tycoon of the same name who died last month leaving $75,000.000 and the longest will in British history ('TIME. July 24; Aug. 28); and Esther de Sola of Montreal; in London...
Married.Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, 53, Manhattan oil tycoon; and Pauline van der Voort Dresser, onetime wife of the late Oilman Carl K. Dresser; in Southampton, L. I. For both it was a third marriage...
...silk made Mr. Imai rich (today he is a tycoon of banking and insurance as well), so it also made him important. For silk represents one-third to one-half of Japan's exports, and 40% of Japan's farmers raise silkworms. Therefore Mr. Imai was long ago elected to the Japanese parliament as representative of the silk industry. A few years ago he felt that it was time for him to retire, but when word of his intention reached the Emperor, Mr. Imai was promptly made a member of the house of peers (senator) for life...
Last week the following were news: William G. Mather, Cleveland tycoon, president of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. (miner of iron ore in Minnesota and Michigan, operator of a fleet of 20 Great Lakes freighters, manufacturer of charcoal and wood chemicals), last week retired from active management of the company which was given him in 1891 by his father, the founder. Elected to the newly created post of chairman, he was succeeded as president by Edward B. Greene, chair-man of the executive committee of Cleveland Trust...