Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned socialist theory into a military crusade of the working class against the middle class were Karl Marx, atheist offspring of several long lines of respected rabbis, and Friedrich Engels, amiable son of a prosperous Rhenish textile tycoon. Marx brought to this crusade a stupendous knowledge of Hegelian philosophy, a brilliant economic mind, trenchant political discernment, a complete inability to earn a living, a perfect willingness to let Friend Engels earn one for him. Marx was also one of the most vituperative geniuses who ever lived. Favorite Marxian epithets for friends and foes alike: Dog! Bedbug! Swine! Pot! Blockhead...
Redhaired, blue-eyed Bruce Barton, 54-year-old advertising tycoon, made millions selling Americans on reading (Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf); on clean collars (Cluett-Peabody collar ads); on shaving (Gillette); on working (Alexander Hamilton Institute); on Jesus and the Bible (The Man Nobody Knows, The Book Nobody Knows). Barton, a born preacher and sloganeer, a superb luncheon-club speaker, son of a Tennessee clergyman, implemented his creed of service by fighting his way into Congress in 1938 as an amateur from Manhattan's only Republican district-the Silk-Stocking Seventeenth, compounded of Park Avenue and nearby...
Married. Dark, beauteous Mary B. Gushing, 34, daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Harvey Gushing, elder sister of the former Mrs. James Roosevelt; and her longtime friend, Manhattan Real-Estate Tycoon William Vincent Astor, 48, inheritor of $65,000,000 from his father, John Jacob Astor; she for the first time, he for the second; quietly, in Easthampton, L. I. Divorced three weeks ago in Cody, Wyo. by first-wife Helen Dinsmore Huntington, 46, Groom Astor and bride last week sailed for a honeymoon aboard his $1,000,000 Nourmahal, on which he often entertained his Dutchess County neighbor...
...being "the outstanding flyers of the world for 1939," the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs (headquarters: Manhattan) awarded the Harmon International Trophy to two New Yorkers: Jacqueline Cochran and Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky. Pretty, 31-year-old Aviatrix Cochran is the wife of Wall Street Tycoon Floyd Odium, has won the award twice before.* In 1939 she became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost...
University of Pennsylvania Alumnus William Guggenheim, copper tycoon, chronic writer-to-the-papers, 71 -year-old songwriter (You're a Glamour Girl, Crumbs of Love), caught wind of a U. of P. plan to award Franklin Roosevelt an honorary degree. To President Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner, he sent an indignant wire, declaring that he believed the "vast majority of our 40,000 or more alumni, who are Willkie-for-President men," would be as shocked as he, hoping President Gates would "rectify what must be an unintentional mistake...