Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the market breathed easier in late August when Britain forced its nationals (holders of better than half of the Allied hoard) to register their U. S. securities, sell them only with Government permission. Last week it breathed still more freely when Britain announced that Scot Securities Tycoon T. J. Carlyle Gilford was in Manhattan to handle the orderly liquidation of British holdings...
...poor are getting poorer," Fritz Thyssen, German steel tycoon, lamented last week in a caustic interview on Nazi Germany. He spoke to New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews at Locarno, Switzerland, whither he fled last November...
...prospective tycoon the CRIMSON offers an opportunity to gain experience in selling advertising space, writing ad copy, and in meeting the manifold business problems involved in managing the financial and advertising side of a daily newspaper...
Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her royal father by becoming the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape, P. & O. Co. shipping tycoon, making something like a royal alliance, considering the importance of P. & O. in the Indies. But Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandster Harry Roy. At her marriage the Roy Jazz Band played the leader's original composition Sarawaki as a wedding march. Nancy Valerie outraged her father's sensibilities even more by marrying Wrestler Bob Gregory. Still worse, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory promptly journeyed to Hollywood, where the by-now publicity-conscious...
...Finland as a major in an infantry regiment and was condemned to death (later pardoned) for participating in an officers' revolt against the Crown. The next Mannerheim was a judge and entomologist and the next one started out as a spoiled intellectual rebel and ended up as a tycoon with a rich wife. He had eight children, of whom the first, Sophia, became an internationally famed trained nurse. The third was named Carl Gustaf Emil. In him was a little of the tycoon, a little of the scientist, a great deal of the rebel. Wrote his mother...