Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberal tycoon, Siemens wanted above all else a democratic Germany cooperating with other democracies. He helped Economist Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht form the Democratic Party of the Weimar Republic, served four years as a member of the Reichstag...
...four-year feud between Philadelphia's Coal and Autogiro Tycoon Raymond Pitcairn and his ousted gardener literally burst into flame last week. The sprawling rubbish dump the gardener has been carefully developing right across from Pitcairn's neatly manicured estate caught fire, and the Bryn Athyn fire department cheerfully let the eyesore burn...
Sued for Divorce. Harry Richman, 45, veteran revue and nightclub minstrel; by thrice-married ex-Follies Beauty Hazel Forbes, 31, whose second husband, Tooth-Powder Tycoon Paul Owen Richmond, left her his Dr. Lyons' fortune in 1932; in Stuart...
...West Palm Beach (Fla.) paid $10,000 for the yellow, 1,000-pound Youth, by William Zorach. The man who signed the check, and who has signed all the checks so far for Florida's newest palace of culture, was a spare, 65-year-old, fiddle-playing Chicago tycoon (Acme Steel), Ralph H. Norton...
...Union! For full support and cooperation with the Soviet Union in its struggle against Hitlerism! By week's end the Worker chucked away its olive branch, shut off its no-war dirge and strode out-helmeted, booted and spurred. Gone, all gone, were the whoops against New Deal-tycoon collusion, the sneers at "Mamma" Roosevelt, the ballyhoo for the forthcoming American Youth Congress in Philadelphia as a red-hot peace rally. The Worker even referred to elegant, wing-collared, Groton-schooled Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles as "Mr." There were also many chest-throwing stories of Russian Army...