Word: tycoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later MOP was in the hands of a trustee in bankruptcy. Long before O. P. died he would have been glad to get back the $70,000,000 he spent buying into the No. 3 U. S. railroad (by mileage). Last month Alleghany Corp. (now controlled by Glass-Jar Tycoon George Alexander Ball) sold out 150,000 shares of O. P.'s preferred stock to establish a tax loss. They had cost an average of $104 a share. They sold at auction for less than...
...Glasgow, Patrick Joseph Dollan, snorted: "It is simply disgusting that this attention should be paid to a little flapper who really ought to have her pants spanked instead of getting publicity." When Unity was delayed two days in reaching Folkestone, popular excitement touched fever pitch and her father, Insurance Tycoon Lord Redesdale, was offered ?5,000 for a statement by one of the big London dailies. "I wouldn't accept ?25,000," cried Lord Redesdale. "Many untrue stories have been circulated. I have even been called a Fascist...
...good, dead Cardinal William Mundelein of Chicago would be happy to know that the idea he planted with Franklin Roosevelt in 1936-a restoration of relations with the Vatican since it is now a temporal State, not just a religion-has flourished thus solidly in the person of Tycoon Taylor...