Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stringent Federal supervision. Floyd Carlisle comes from that centre of natural power, upstate New York. He is the robust board chairman of six companies (one of them, Niagara Hudson, is world's largest producer), speaks for the Morgan utility interests, is the nation's No. 1 power tycoon. Last week he and Board Chairman Bernard Capen Cobb of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. did something about it. They invited the nation's utility tycoons to a dinner at Manhattan's Metropolitan Club. Out of the repentant ashes of the N. E. L. A., founded at Chicago...
...Drug Tycoon Liggett, usually famously convivial, was so shocked that his friends urged him to go away and rest. He talked vaguely of "legal rights" and "enforcement." But although no law supports Chancellor Chamberlain's ruling, not a bank in England would dare break it. While there was some talk of a solution in an arrangement for gradual transfer of the $25,000,000, control of Boots last week was still in the U. S. and Chancellor Chamberlain gave no indication of a new deal for what Britishers had hailed as "the deal of the Century...
Born in Augusta, Maine the late Tycoon Mulliken went to Chicago in 1868 and amassed an enormous fortune selling switches, signal towers, hand-cars and other supplies to the booming railroads of the U. S. In 1922 he established the investment banking house of Mulliken & Roberts in New York City and-his Chicago house being "haunted"-moved to a 1,200-acre estate at New Canaan, Conn. There, his guests used to be driven around his estate in a private sight-seeing bus with the top down. His favorite cars were two Reo taxicabs with the meters taken out. When...
...Pennsylvania steel town-in which it comes to life. It is the story of a few crucial years in the life of a steel puddler, Jim Stanley (Charles Bickford), and his loving wife, Anna. Jim starts out as a laborer, becomes, for the purposes of the narrative, a steel tycoon almost overnight. In an addled way, he gets involved with a lecherous blonde girl (Gwili André) in New York and even tries to divorce his wife to marry her. Suddenly, in court, he experiences a change of heart, admits he has bribed witnesses to testify against his wife, goes...
...when he was barely 18, Smith Reynolds married Anne Cannon, daughter of a Concord, N. C. textile tycoon. In August 1930, they had a daughter. A year later young Smith Reynolds, who had studied aviation instead of going to college, flew his wife to Reno for her divorce...