Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Companions of Mrs. Tibbett at last week's premiere were Mr. & Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone Jr. *Daughter of retired banker Edgar L. Marston of Manhattan. She was married twice before, to Robert J. Adams, son of the chewing-gum tycoon, and to John Clark Burgard of San Francisco...
...fifth annual races, run off last week at Miami Municipal Airport, had been threatened by Depression. Prize money was reduced, few cups were donated. There was no free gasoline for contestants. The show needed an angel. Up stepped bristle-bearded Henry Latham Doherty, utility tycoon who lately bought swank Miami hotels and beach clubs. Alert to the promotion value of the meet he posted $2,500 and a cup for an amateur pilot's race from Daytona Beach to Miami, at the end of a pilgrimage sponsored by the U. S. Amateur Air Pilots' Association. Also he invited...
Died. Ernst von Borsig, 63, famed German locomotive & machinery tycoon, senior head of once potent A. Borsig. Ltd., biggest member of the Borsig group (second biggest German one-family business*), bankrupted last year and forced to accept government aid; of heart disease; on his country estate Gross Syphen Behnitz, Brandenburg...
Died. Gilbert Colgate, 74, soap & toothpaste tycoon, onetime board chairman of Colgate & Co. which his grandfather founded in 1806 (merged in 1928 to make Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.); of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Oilman Henry Latham Doherty, like many another tycoon, finds it pleasant to bask his frail body in the warm Florida sunshine. But Florida no longer represents just rest to Mr. Doherty. For 15 months he has owned the big Miami Biltmore...