Word: jekyll
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florida's perpetual youth, was not the first modern tycoon to visit the Southeast and his railroad and hotels meant more to the commonalty than to Mr. Flagler's fellow rich men. The real pioneers of Tycoon's Coast were the group that formed the Jekyl Island Club in 1886, some 200 families, including Morgans, Goulds, Rockefellers, Drexels. Carnegies. John D. Rockefeller's life-perpetuating estate and private golf course at Ormond came later...
Howard Earle Coffin, retired motors tycoon, bought Sapeloe 17 years ago and developed it the way other tycoons (Goulds, McAlpins, Rockefellers, Drexels, Fords, Carnegies, du Ponts, et al.) have developed Jekyl, St. Simon's and other Golden Islands.* He built a mansion Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe...
...York Times, saw it in print. Soon the Panic of 1907 vividly demonstrated the justice of his criticisms, won him recognition as a financial authority. In 1908 he went with the late great Henry P. Davison and Frank A. Vander-lip and Senator Nelson Aldrich to recently-famed Jekyl Island (see National Affairs) where the U. S. currency system was thoroughly studied, scientifically revised. In 1911, Mr. Warburg became a U. S. citizen...