Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-German Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler got an act passed to end foreign control, through dummy corporations, of Swedish industries. It was aimed at Krupp's one-third ownership of the Bofors works. (Just before the act went through, Krupp sold out to a Swedish group headed by Tycoon Axel Wenner-Gren.) Junkers had to give up a manufacturing affiliate in Sweden, but Germans remained on the directorates of other big Swedish firms, and the German investment in Sweden's metal-working industry alone was estimated...
Hedy Lamarr's first husband, Austrian Munitions Tycoon Fritz Mandl, now an exile, concluded a visit to the U. S. by buying two 10,000-ton cargo ships and sailed for Rio de Janeiro with his wife No. 2, Austrian Actress Herta Schneider. His use for the ship's: to carry cargoes to Europe from Argentina, where he is starting out afresh as a tycoon...
...Minister of Food who knew something about dealing with the public, the Prime Minister sagely went outside the Cabinet and hired a shopkeeper tycoon-Frederick James Marquis, Lord Woolton, banker, insuranceman and chairman of Lewis's Ltd., a chain of Midlands department stores. He used to criticize Neville Chamberlain's "parsimony"; when Chamberlain was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Day after Lord Woolton joined the Cabinet Mrs. Chamberlain introduced him at a"Better Cookery" campaign meeting as follows: "Since arrangements for this meeting have been made some body has been busy changing Cabinet Ministers around." (Laughter.) Thin-lipped thin...
...March 4) but a smaller pyramid in which Hoppy once had a large voting interest. This was the $400,000,000 fantasy called Utilities Power & Light Corp., put together by a Chicago Christian Scientist and Shakespeare devotee, Harley Lyman Clarke. Crueler than death has been the fate of ex-tycoon Clarke: by 1938 his own lawyer officially admitted he was too poor to be sued. Unlike Hopson (who built up good operating utilities on the theory that fat cows give richest milk) Shakespearean Clarke bought and overcapitalized nearly everything...
...Churches, Dr. Buttrick, quoting a report from Rome, had tried to pin the President down as to whether Mr. Taylor had a permanent status, warned him of "a growing [Protestant] disillusionment which augurs ill for interfaith comity." Last week the Federal Council published the President's reply. Ex-Tycoon Taylor (U. S. Steel), said Mr. Roosevelt, "is in Rome as my special representative. This appointment does not constitute the inauguration of formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican." Both to the Federal Council and the Christian Century these seemed weasel words. Said the Council's executive committee: "The unwarranted...