Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resigned. Martin John Insull (brother), fugitive Chicago utilities tycoon; as a trustee of Cornell University...
Like all Museum robberies, this one was probably unprofitable. The ten paintings were practically unmarketable. No dealer or collector anywhere in the world would want them, except to look at in secret or unless some underworld tycoon was in the market to decorate his gangland mansion. The Brooklyn Museum had no insurance on the stolen pictures, and no intention of insuring the rest of its treasures. No public museums or libraries carry insurance because, 1) it would cost too much for public subscription. 2) it is not necessary. Nearly every important picture ever stolen from a museum has eventually been...
...Marion LaFollette of Wisconsin, and to Rachel Young LaFollette; a son (7 lb. 14 oz.); in Washington. Engaged. Leonora Brooke. 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak (northwestern Borneo); and Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inch- cape, 45, son of the late Lord Inchcape, shipping tycoon, brother of the Hon. Elsie Mackay who was lost in an attempted transatlantic flight in 1928. (In 1840 Trader James Brooke, great-uncle of Sir Charles, helped the Sultan of Borneo's uncle put down a rebellion, got the Raj of Sarawak in return.) Married. Margaret Dawes. 24, daughter...
...Looking Forward, adapted from a London play by C. L. Anthony, is neither political tract nor visionary romance; it is a department store homily in which Lionel Barrymore takes a terrific fall in the world from the position he held in Sweepings. In Sweepings he was the tycoon owner of a Chicago Bazaar who made his general manager eat humble pie. In Looking Forward he is Benton. a miserable bookkeeper in a London emporium named Service's. His employer sacks him for general incompetence and inappropriate geniality. When Benton has retired to his suburban cottage to start a baking...
...Working Man (Warner). John Reeves (George Arliss) of Reeves Shoe Co. is a testy old tycoon; when his nephew and general manager implies that his days of usefulness are over, he takes himself fishing in a rage, runs into the two addle-headed children of his recently deceased industrial rival, Hartland. At first, Reeves plans to diddle the Hartland heirs out of their shoe factory. Presently he changes his mind; it pleases him better to get himself appointed their guardian under a pseudonym, make them help him build up their plant. This adds to their self-respect and diminishes...