Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Seiji Noma, 59, Japanese magazine tycoon, publisher of the daily Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper'') and nine magazines with a combined circulation of over 10,000,000, author of numerous tracts and autobiographical sketches (Secrets of Success in Life, Talks on Mental Training, Noma of Japan); of heart disease; in Tokyo...
...Astoria, L.I. at Eastern Service Studios, two new independent companies were hard at work on two new feature pictures for Paramount release. The companies: Odessco (for Odium Steele Co.), backed by Stanley Odium, son of Tycoon Floyd Odium; Triple A (for Associated Artists of America), backed by Broker Harold Orlob. Odessco's picture: Home Town, with Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin, directed by William K. Howard (Transatlantic). Triple A's picture: "...one-third of a nation," first WPA play to be adapted for cinema, with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones...
Next month, people who can afford to pay 50? for a magazine and have the time to read 30,000 word "abridgments" will be offered Omnibook, published and edited by Robert Kenneth Straus, New York City Councilman and son of Jesse Isadore Straus, late Macy store tycoon and Ambassador to France. Each Omnibook page will contain four book pages with margins trimmed. Each number will include about 100 pages from each of five books...
Document 1 is the final Runciman Report, summing up scores of hitherto secret cablegrams and verbal messages sent to His Majesty's Government by Viscount Runciman of Doxford in the period from August 3 to September 16, during which the veteran British shipping tycoon labored in Czechoslovakia as mediator...
...45th birthday Marshall Field III, Manhattan socialite, inherited about $100,000,000 in accrued income from the estate of his Chicago department-store tycoon grandfather. Already a millionaire many times over, under the terms of the first Marshall Field's will he will get the residue (approximately $500,000,000) when...