Word: tycooning
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...Thomas Beecham, famed orchestral conductor, son of the potent pill tycoon, read in a London newspaper last week that he had been fined ?10 ($50) for failing to answer a summons...
Last week all Paris was agog with rumors that Prime Minister André Tardieu was seriously pondering whether to break off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Excitement grew when the private airplane of Sir Henri Deterding, Anglo-Dutch oil tycoon, arrived from London at Le Bourget and Sir Henri sped by motor to confer for two hours with M. Tardieu, then dashed back to his plane, flew home to London. Observers pondered the most widely believed explanation of Sir Henri's movements: he came at the request of M. Tardieu who wanted to know whether French consumers...
...mechanic's helper, Mr. Caesar entered the bus business by operating a taxi fleet in Superior, Wis., then a small stage line which was later bought by Northland Transportation. He made Greyhound Lines prosper, and as a result now, at the age of 37, is U. S. bus tycoon, President of a corporation with an estimated investment of $16,000,000 and profits (last year), of $1,549,000. He rarely leaves motors and roads to putter on his yacht. But his leisure is increasing: last year he played golf twice, this year has been on the links three...
Poet Hart Crane, young (31) but with greying hair, is native to Garrettsville, 0., son & heir to Candy Tycoon Clarence Crane. Hart Crane preferred poetry to business, went to Manhattan (1922), supported life by writing copy for J. Walter Thompson, Sweet's Architectural Catalog, others. In 1924, living in a house on Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, Poet Crane gazed at the Brooklyn Bridge, thought of writing a long Whitmanesque poem on the U. S. While he wrote it he moved about to Paterson, N. J., Isle of Pines (Cuba), Pasadena, Paris, Marseilles. Another book: White Buildings...
...copies in time to mail them to South America before the release date, but were absolutely forbidden to mail to the U. S. The Ford method was imported in Czechoslovakia, high wages and all, by Thomas Bat'a (TIME. Oct. 8, 1928). He is now the undisputed shoe tycoon of Europe, but unpopular. Socialist sheets charge that he pays his men double, then exacts triple and quadruple work from them. Germans believe in a modified kind of Fordization called "rationalization." A rationalizer gives his men better tools and machinery, drives them harder, but does not pay higher wages unless...