Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter, Leonora Margaret Brooke (known to the press as Princess Gold), made a noble alliance when she married the late Earl of Inchcape, a P. & O. shipping tycoon. But Elizabeth Brooke (Princess Pearl) married a jazz-band leader, Harry Roy. Nancy Valerie Brooke (Princess Baba) married and divorced a professional wrestler, Bob Gregory. To make matters worse, Sir Charles's wife, the Ranee, a daughter of the late Viscount Esher, published her autobiography, Relations and Complications, indiscreetly revealing the details of Sir Charles's courtship, their marital relations. The Ranee, now in Manhattan, cut off from her British...
...jawed, bushy-browed, erudite Tycoon MacMillan was born near Toronto, studied forestry at Yale. In 1912 he went to British Columbia, got interested in timber's export possibilities, went into business for himself. Soon his ships were carrying so much of Canada's lumber exports that the sawmill owners began buying ships too. So MacMillan bought (from John D. Rockefeller Jr.) one billion feet of standing timber and a sawmill...
Last week a special Federal grand jury identified him in no uncertain terms. He was Dr. Manfred Zapp, 38, alias Hermann Nille, alias Otto W. Hermann, son of a Ruhr steel tycoon, head of the German Transocean News Service, and No. 1 Nazi propagandist for the U. S. and Latin America. After a five-month study of his activities by FBI, a Federal grand jury in Washington, D. C. indicted him and his chief aide, Günther Tonn. (The Dies Committee picked up his trail seven months...
Henry Ford, the most famed tycoon alive, was up a tree this week. The old 'coon had been treed before, but this time not only Organized Labor...
Married. Virginia Hand ("Jinx") Callaway, 19, only daughter of Textile Tycoon Cason Callaway, good friend of fellow Warm Springs Enthusiast Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Lieut. Benjamin Mart Bailey Jr., 24, football and track star on 1939 West Point teams; in La Grange...