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Owen D. Young on Gold. Just back from Europe last week, Tycoon Owen D. Young addressed Manhattan's famed Lotos Club in a manner which caused him to be mooted again for the White House (see p. 15). But Mr. Young also said things which made German editors leap joyously next day to the conclusion that he favors scaling down what Germany must pay under the Young Plan because of the increasing price of gold. * Said Tycoon Young, giving a discreet, humorous, personal twist to the awful and stupendous problem which the Young Plan was devised to solve...
Sirs: In the Paramount cinema Laughter, Tycoon Gibson's daughter arrives from Europe on the MAJESTIC. Perhaps there were no convenient sailings of the LEVIATHAN, AMERICA, GEORGE WASHINGTON, REPUBLIC, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT or PRESIDENT HARDING. Following this the hero who can choose his sailing date, plans to take passage Europe-ward on the ROTTERDAM...
...since 1927 have the Norwegian guardians of the trust fund of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Swedish dynamite tycoon, found anyone worthy of the greatest of their beneficences, the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. They made up lost time last "week by awarding the Peace Prize twice in succession: for 1929 to Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime janitor, lawyer, onetime U. S. Secretary of State; for 1930 to the Most Rev. Dr. Nathan Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, father of twelve. Each of these distinguished gentlemen will receive $46,430. U. S. newspapers cheered...
...money to the investor for the next 35 years-if the Young Plan remains sound and Germany continues to pay. But such a price as $68 is proof enough that confidence in the Young Plan has waned some 25%, reason enough to explain the alleged presence of Tycoon Young in Paris last week "incognito...
...Imperial Palace Hotel (modeled after London's Savoy) is, for purposes of the story, internationally admitted to be best of its kind in the world. Famed among hotel tycoons but little-known to the public, 47-year-old Evelyn Orcham is Imperial Palace's director, beloved autocrat. At 4:30 a.m. he is about to set out for the meat market with his buyer, when in come Tycoon Sir Henry Savott, his lovely daughter Gracie, late arrivals from a liner. Gracie admires Evelyn at sight, sets her cap at him, will not be happy till she gets him. In Paris...