Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tycoon Alderdice is Managing Director of Colonial Cordage Co., Ltd. and on the boards of Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd., Newfoundland Manufacturers' Mutual In surance Co.. Newfoundland Hotel Facilities, Ltd. and Newfoundland Motor Mutual Insurance Association. Returns showed that both Sir Richard and Lady Squires had lost their seats under an avalanche of votes that gave Mr. Alderdice control of 24 of the 26 seats in Newfoundland's House of Assembly. Though Squires did not resign last week his Cabinet was clearly doomed. During the campaign Mr. Alderdice talked of placing Newfoundland under a commission form of government...
Germans, recalling how he took chemical patents from them as Alien Property Custodian during the War, and later exploited them as head of the Chemical Foundation, are not prone to think of Irish-blooded Francis Patrick Garvan, brother-in-law of the late Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady, as a particularly apt exponent of the spirit of Fair Play. But affable "Pat" Garvan is a sportsman as well as a patriot. Last week he made two moves toward an end which he thinks important: transfusing the spirit of Fair Play from U. S. sport to U. S. business...
...than it was a year ago. So is Universal, run by old Carl Laemmle's smart son "Junior," who started the monster cycle. Most extraordinary personnel changes were in Fox, where Edward Richmond Tinker, long with Chase National Bank, became president to succeed Harley L. Clarke, onetime utilities tycoon. Six months later Mr. Tinker became board chairman, was succeeded a president by Sidney Kent, onetime Paramount general manager. Winfield Sheehan, who last winter suffered a nervous breakdown and was reported out of Fox, last week re turned to his job of general manager. Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor have lost...
Said Clarence ("Piggly Wiggly") Saunders, twice bankrupt chainstore tycoon, as he saw his $500,000 Memphis estate auctioned off for $92,000: "I've lived in cottages before and can again...
Biographer Ida Minerva Tarbell's concern with business ethics dates from way back yonder, when oil was discovered in her native Pennsylvania hills. Her family cleared out of the way of the oil tycoons' sent Ida to Allegheny College. She worked with Chautauqua for eight years, then went off to Paris to study French methods of writing biography. Her work attracted Editor Samuel Sidney McClure then starting McClure's Magazine. Biographer Tarbell's Life of Abraham Lincoln, serialized, brought 150,000 subscribers to the magazine. Her History of the Standard Oil Co., also serialized, reverberated from...