Word: tycooning
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...Ackerman, its Republican Congressman for the past twelve years, died. To succeed him the Republicans nominated Donald H. McLean, local lawyer; the Democrats named Percy Hamilton Stewart. Nominee Stewart, a commuting Manhattan attorney, was once Mayor of Plainfield. His wife is the granddaughter of the late Alexander Smith, carpet tycoon. Since both men were Wet, the Stewart-McLean campaign, brief and bitter, turned only on national issues. Republican McLean asked for a vote of confidence in the Hoover Administration, eulogized the President's attempts to combat Depression. Democrat Stewart flayed President Hoover for "refusing to face the facts...
...James Cash Penney, chainstore tycoon, paid $8.25 per lb. for 920-lb. World's Grand Champion Lucky Strike. World's Champion beef commands fancy prices when served in hotels or dining cars, brings its vendor publicity...
...David Belasco; Cinemactor Tom Mix in Hollywood, of peritonitis following operation upon a ruptured appendix; Premier Ismet Pasha of Turkey, in Istanbul, of injuries suffered in an automobile crash ; Yale Footballer Albie Booth, in New Haven, of pleurisy; William Reynolds, 18, son of Richard Samuel Reynolds, onetime tobacco tycoon, in Great Neck, L. I., of injuries suffered in an automobile crash; ("Bad") Bishop William Montgomery Brown, former Bishop of Arkansas, deposed by the Protestant Episcopal church in 1925 for heresy, in Galion, Ohio, of heart disease; Cinema Director Fred Niblo, in Hollywood, of appendicitis...
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
...fund for the impoverished victims." Into such a "crime prevention" exhibit on Los Angeles' South Main Street two months ago walked one Hugh Plunkett. On the wall he found photographs of the body of his late brother Robert, secretary to Edward Laurence Doheny Jr., son of the oil tycoon, taken just after Robert Plunkett shot Doheny Jr. dead and killed himself in 1929. Infuriated, Hugh Plunkett tore the prints from the wall, had Proprietor Joe Gotch and five associates arrested. The charge: libeling the memory of the dead...