Word: tycoons
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Among the Fund's directors were William Z. Foster (then secretly a Communist), Benjamin Gitlow (then a Communist tycoon ), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (I.W.W.), the Reverend Harry Ward (Union Theological Seminary), Robert Morss Lovett (now Government secretary of the Virgin Islands). Though the Garland Fund threw money right & left (mostly left), instead of being depleted, it grew. (It held First National Bank of the City of New York stock during the '20s.) Sixteen years after Charles Garland decided to give away his million, the Fund was close to $2,500,000. Some of this paper profit was wiped...
Every so often Steel Tycoon Charles M. Schwab, late, great, bankrupt (TIME, May 26), used to promise a $2,000,000 endowment to his alma mater, St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa. Last week the college revealed that Schwab had left it holding not an endowment but the bag, to the tune of $25,000 he borrowed in 1932 and never repaid...
Died. Poultry Farmer Philip Morgan Plant, 39, who until seven years ago lived in gossip columnists' showcases; in Manhattan. Born Philip Manwaring, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, transportation Tycoon Morton F. Plant, who left him $15,000,000. Divorce from Cinemactress Constance Bennett cost him a $1,000,000 settlement, divorce from Big Game Huntress Edna Dunham a fifth as much, an auto crash with Showgirl Helene Jesmer $75,000. His third wife, ex-Showgirl Marjorie King, survives as his widow...
...decree threw the steel industry into an uproar of protest. But the uproar was nothing compared with the indignation aroused when Steel Tycoon Ernest Tener Weir lined himself up on Henderson's side this week. Figuring the wage increase his National Steel precipitated earlier this month would cost the industry not more than $135,000,000, he termed the amount "insignificant" compared with Government defense spending. Said he: "There are no facts available today on which ... to determine the necessity of a price change now. ... It won't hurt the industry to take three months to produce facts...
...Devil and Miss Jones (RKO Radio). It is a jolt for any old-style tycoon with a jumpy stomach and a cracker-&-milk diet to pick up the morning paper and see that he has been hanged in effigy outside a big department store he can't recall owning. It is particularly hard for old John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), a bachelor so rich and powerful that his picture hasn't appeared in the newspapers for 20 years...