Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bradley, 20, only daughter of Lieut. General Omar Bradley, commander of U.S. ground forces in France; and 2nd Lieut. Henry Shaw Beukema, 20, son of Colonel Herman Beukema, West Point's geopolitics expert ; after his graduation at West Point. Married. Barbara Jean Douglas, 21, only daughter of Plane Tycoon Donald Wills Douglas; and Lieut. William Bruce Arnold, 25, second son of General Henry ("Hap") Arnold, Army Air Forces chief; in Los Angeles. Married. Band Leader James ("Kay") Kyser, 38, schmaltzy "Professor of Musical Knowledge"; and Georgia Ann ("Gorgeous Georgia") Carroll, 24, onetime highest-paid Powers model ("The Chesterfield Girl...
...practical purposes, the British industry is mainly Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank (TIME, Dec. 20). Among the new crop of Hollywood tycoons, perhaps the most up-&-coming is the boss of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Spyros Panajotis Skouras, 51. Three months ago muscular Tycoon Skouras flew to England to see Tycoon Rank. With him Spyros Skouras carried the worries of Hollywood about Cinemagnate Rank. Was Mr. Rank willing to come to terms, or was he getting ready for a knockdown, drag-out fight for a chunk of Hollywood's world monopoly? Last week persuasive Mr. Skouras clippered back...
...Brothers Skouras. Tycoon Skouras is used to speaking of the movie industry as "our industry." With his equally famed brother, Charles, 56, boss of National Theaters, one of the three biggest U.S. chains, and George, 49, head of Skouras Theaters Corp. (85 houses), he controls a large chunk of it. The Skouras brothers climbed together. All were born in Skouro-chorion, Greece (meaning: Skourasville). Charlie came to the U.S. first. As a newsboy, dishwasher and bartender, he soon earned enough to send for the others. He settled Spyros into a job as bus boy in St. Louis' Planters...
Bruce Barton, advertising tycoon, onetime G.O.P. Congressman, ranged himself alongside the Sheriff of Nottingham. In a speech before some 370 be-orchided New Jersey socialites, he found a new name for Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: the New Deal's "morals have never risen above the level of Robin Hood, who defended his thefts from the rich on the ground that he gave to the poor...
Died. Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, 47, homicide's tycoon (Murder, Inc.), arch-racketeer; in the electric chair; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y., eight years after his conviction for the murder of clothing trucker Joseph Rosen. Fawnlike. liquid-eyed, Russian-born son of an immigrant herring-peddler, he stole from Manhattan East Side pushcarts almost as soon as he held his first job. Racketeering he regarded as a kind of extension of normal business methods. During the late '20s and early '30s Lepke gradually established himself as violence's master-middleman between labor unions and industry...