Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Annulled. Preston Sturges, playwright (Strictly Dishonorable); and Eleanor Post Hutton, stepdaughter of General Foods Corp. Board Chairman Edward F. Hutton, granddaughter of the late Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post; in Manhattan. The 1930 marriage was declared invalid by Referee John M. Tierney because Mr. Sturges' first wife, Estelle Mudge Godfrey Sturges Daugherty, had gotten a Mexican divorce which "isn't worth a last year's bird nest." Sued. By Richard Wayne, onetime cinemactor: Mrs. Antoinette Converse Wayne, Iowa steel & banking heiress; for $300,000 advance allowance under a contract by which Mrs. Wayne agreed...
...department of doll architecture is not only able but eager to make any tycoon's child happy with an exact model of her own home, working either from photographs or plans. Prices, they promise, will not be exorbitant. Unemployed draughtsmen and department stores are not the only people to benefit. Frames for the doll houses are made at Greenwich House Workshops, a semi-charitable institution to teach handiwork to New York children. Each doll house bears a Delano & Aldrich label, is a fine advertisement for the firm...
Said Mrs. Juliette Leiter, relict of Tycoon Joseph Leiter, when questioned in an income tax recovery suit about expenses charged to upkeep of her Washington mansion: "Why, the expenses for that es- tablishment are enormous. I would say about $6,000 a month...
Born. To Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, daughter of Auto Tycoon Walter Percy Chrysler; and Edgar William Garbisch...
...spent the night there, then went on to Milan. There they went to the office of a travel agency. "I am Samuel Insull," he said. "You know who I am?" He was perfectly casual, displayed a thick roll of banknotes. The clerk knew he was a U. S. utility tycoon whose fortune had been swept away. He did not know that Samuel Insull was under indictment in Chicago for larceny and embezzlement, that the U. S. State Department was spattering Europe with cables asking his whereabouts. The agent provided air transportation to Rome. Samuel Insull said good...