Word: tycooning
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...years older (he is now 33). At election times they are busy baby-kissers. And all the time they are busy spending where it will do the most political good the income from millions left to Lady Mosley by her grandfather, the late Chicago department store tycoon, Levi Zeigler Leiter. Last week Sir Oswald saw and fairly snapped up a chance to seize leadership of the disaffected, "pure Socialist" left wing of the Labor Party...
...presented at the Royal Court his daughter Charlotte. President Edward William Edwards (bottles) sent his Eleanore, President A. Atwater Kent (radio) his Elizabeth. But in her own right came Miss Doris Duke, greatest heiress of the nation where most money is, daughter of the late, international tobacco tycoon James B. Duke, plain, wholesome, sweet eighteen...
Warmly, without a trace of sour grapes or jealousy, Grocer Habsburg goes on to praise the self made Tea Tycoon: "Just how his personality could break down all barriers was shown at a dinner party, given during Kiel Regatta shortly before the great war by Kaiser Wilhelm II, aboard his imperial yacht to Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The Kaiser was in a bad humor and inclined to be coldly polite. Mr. Morgan, sensing the frigidity, became frigid too. But not so the genial Sir Thomas! His joviality and high spirits soon thawed everything and everybody, most...
Sued for divorce. By Julia Tiffany Parker, 'twin granddaughter of the late jewelry tycoon Charles Lewis Tiffany: Gurdon S. Parker, Manhattan architect; at Reno...
Bethlehem's destiny as a musical centre might have been thwarted when Steel intervened. Instead, no less a tycoon than Charles Michael Schwab boosted it and it was an outgrowth of the same Moravian choir which, more than 100 years later, gave the first complete U. S. performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's supreme Mass in B Minor. Now Bethlehem is as much Bach's as Steel...