Word: tycooning
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...Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain tycoon, pursued nine bandits who robbed him and his family, for eight years, caught the last...
Died. Samuel Livingston Mather Jr., 15, son of the Cleveland steel tycoon, by hanging himself with a belt looped over the top of a door in his bedroom; in Mentor, Ohio. Reason assigned: grief for his mother who died last June. His father was just landing in Europe when the news came...
...Author. Sherwood Anderson, self-made writer, might have been a self-made tycoon. From handicapped beginnings as a poor boy in Camden, Ohio he rose through little schooling and many jobs to be manager of a paint factory. But the problems of industrialism preyed on his mind. One day, halfway through dictating a letter, he blurted out .to his stenographer: "I am walking in the bed of a river," clapped on his hat and walked out. never to return. Through his artist brother, Karl, he met the "Chicago group" of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg...
Ironically, the action was brought by Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky, a unit of the old Oil Trust which Tycoon Flagler thought...
...sometimes suggested that pleasure flying is a better sport for women than for men, since women have more time to learn and to stay in practice. Especially to daughters of rich men might this apply. One such, Margery Durant, daughter of Motor Tycoon William Crapo Durant, had time this summer to tour Europe for three months. She did it all dressed up in white in her black-&-white Lockheed-Vega Ariel, accompanied by a French pilot...