Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City, breast-beating Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, roaring like any sucking dove, nominated Utility Tycoon Wendell Willkie as a good 1940 G. O. P. possibility. Said Mr." Willkie wryly: "If the Government continues to take over my business, I may be looking for some kind of a new job. General Johnson's is the best offer I have...
Johann Strauss: Album of Rediscovered Music (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). Poking about the collection of Straussiana that the late Railroad Tycoon Paul Lowenberg left to the Library of Congress (TIME, Aug. 7), Columbia researchers last spring dug up five lost dances by Vienna's Waltz King. Well uncorked by Conductor Barlow, they are up to Strauss's champagne standard...
Last week the No. 1 German industrialist, Fritz Thyssen, who in early Nazi days gave Hitler invaluable fiscal support, suddenly arrived with his wife and child at the Locarno Hotel in Lucerne, settled down for "an indefinite stay." Said Tycoon Thyssen: "As a member of the Reichstag I expressed myself in timely and emphatic fashion against the war and the present policy of the Reich Government. This political attitude threatened to cause consequences which forced me to leave Germany...
...recent years ardent anti-Semite Adolf Hitler and his then leading British admirer, potent London Daily Mail Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere, conducted their somewhat confused and often ludicrous relations through "Princess Steffi, the Mystery Woman of Europe" (as tabloids tag her), despite the fact that she is a Viennese Jewess. In court, Princess Steffi was able to show that Lord Rothermere has paid her some $185,000 in a period of over five years to be his "foreign political representative." She was now suing to force him to fulfill an alleged promise to pay her $20,000 yearly...
Unpredictable Lord Rothermere, who took the stand this week, used to be known as "The Mystery Man of Fleet Street" in the years when he was a super-silent business manager and steadying influence on his late elder brother Lord Northcliffe, most brilliant and potent press tycoon the Empire has ever had. In recent years Lord Rothermere, who controls the London Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Dispatch, together with a string of prominent provincial papers, has stopped just short of yellow journalism. He was once reported ready to bet some $1,000,000 that his reporters could encircle...