Word: tycooning
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Europe's best known oil tycoon is potent, mysterious Sir Henri Deterding, Director General of Royal Dutch-Shell. As far as the British Government is concerned, Europe's most useful oil tycoon is brisk, smooth-faced Sir John Cadman, chairman of Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd., and an associate of Sir Henri's in distributing oil in the Orient...
...Working Man (Warner). John Reeves (George Arliss) of Reeves Shoe Co. is a testy old tycoon; when his nephew and general manager implies that his days of usefulness are over, he takes himself fishing in a rage, runs into the two addle-headed children of his recently deceased industrial rival, Hartland. At first, Reeves plans to diddle the Hartland heirs out of their shoe factory. Presently he changes his mind; it pleases him better to get himself appointed their guardian under a pseudonym, make them help him build up their plant. This adds to their self-respect and diminishes...
...duty to move among tainted bourgeois, wear bourgeois clothes. It is not unnatural that he should occasionally think bourgeois thoughts. With his wife and two children and one "house worker" he occupies a four-room apartment over a garage behind the former palace of a Moscow tycoon. Official dinners are held in state rooms at the Foreign Office where Host Litvinov dispenses champagne and caviar on solid silver plates-belonging to the government...
Died. Leah Barnato Blackwell, 40, England's "Queen of Diamonds," daughter of the late Diamond Tycoon Barnett ("Barney") Barnato, divorced last month from Carlyle Blackwell, oldtime cinemactor (TIME, April 3); of heart disease; in London...
...Shenandoah and the Blue Ridge are two of the greatest beauties of the South. A third is Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams. Last week Harrison Williams, multi-millionaire utility tycoon, gave up active management of his two investment trusts named for the valley and the mountains. Thus does a New Deal succeed...