Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Herr Hitler had not come to report. He had come to tell Herr von Hindenburg to put his mighty autograph* on a state paper accepting the resignation of the first "Safeguard Minister" to be forced out by Nazi pressure. Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, Germany's greatest press & cinema tycoon who had been Minister of Agriculture & Economics. The President yielded with extreme reluctance. Then, President & Chancellor talked deeply of the fate of German Protestantism (see below). There was no accounting of the Chancellor's stewardship, not Adolf Hitler, not Paul von Hindenburg, is now the master. The facts...
...Tycoons & Junkers. When worried President von Hindenburg let "Safeguard Minister" Dr. Hugenberg go last week he withdrew support from Germany's most pampered class-his closest friends and neighbors, the East Prussian Junkers (landed proprietors). The Junkers, sunk as a class in debt, have clung to their lands for years through special Government grants of credit and decrees to block foreclosure. Chancellor Hitler appointed as Minister of Agriculture a Nazi famed as "The Friend of the Small Farmer," Herr Walter Darré. As every Junker knows Herr Darré regards their class as a feudal excrescence on new Germany...
...which Jimmy Doolittle made a world record of 294 m.p.h. Wedell-Williams is a unique combination consisting of one-eyed, tousle-mopped "Jimmy" Wedell, 33, Texas bartender's son, onetime barnstormer; and rich, suave, happy-go-lucky Harry Palmerton Williams, son of the late Louisiana cypress tycoon Frank Williams. To the devoted Cajun and Negro swampers of Patterson, La., the one-street milltown over which he and his wife (onetime Film Actress Marguerite Clark) reign in baronial style, "Mister Harry" is known as "the Speed Kid." He had already made himself a local god with fast horses, fast automobiles...
...purchase of famed Overholt Distillery by National Distillers (TIME, June 12). Founded two years before the War of 1812, Overholt was family-owned until the go's when control passed to Andrew William Mellon and Henry Clay Frick. In 1925 it was acquired by David Albert Schulte, cigarstore tycoon...
Married, John Duval Dodge, 35, son of the late John F. Dodge, automobile tycoon: and one Dora McDonald Cline, 30; in Elkhart. Ind., less than a week after Marie O'Connor Dodge made a record for Michigan by divorcing...