Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Steel Tycoon Taylor was first accredited to Rome at Christmas 1939, the purposes were obvious: 1) to help Pope and President pursue (in the Roosevelt phrase) "parallel endeavors for peace" during the "phony war"; 2) to tune in on the reports Pius XII got from his diplomatic corps, then the best in Europe. But today Hitler's armies have packed most of the papal legates back to Rome, and the Vatican, with many more Catholics living under the swastika, has become more and more neutral while the U.S. grew more and more belligerent...
...French shore to get out to the floats. He is rich, wavy-haired Wing Commander Whitney Willard Straight, 28, son of the late Major Willard D. Straight, unorthodox Morgan banker who founded and funded the New Republic. Wing Commander Straight is a grandson of the late traction tycoon William C. Whitney, cousin of Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
...world's richest university last week became the owner of one of the world's supposedly swankest hotels. The late Robert Walton Goelet ('02), Manhattan real estate tycoon, bequeathed to Harvard Manhattan's 31-year-old Ritz-Carlton (assessed value: $3,675,000). Harvard will operate the hotel, give Harvard men (and others) an opportunity to advance education by stopping there...
...this rubbish, in the midst of hatred and contempt. Father Chisholm built the mission of Pai-tan and his spiritual life. How he taught himself to practice medicine, how he saved the life of Tycoon Chia's son, how he brought Pai-tan through the plague, famine, banditry, how he overcame the deep Teutonic hatred of his German Reverend Mother, made friends with the Methodist missionaries, was tortured by bandits and escaped, make up most of The Keys of the Kingdom...
...said Father Jerry. "After all he's not so bad, if you take him the right way," said Father Steve, "anybody would get a bit queer in the topknot after being over thirty years out here alone." Then Father Chisholm had his last great triumph. When he saved Tycoon Chia's son, the proud, highly civilized, subtle Chinese had formally offered to become Christian. To Chia's great relief Father Chisholm said...