Word: tycooning
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...broad, carved desk in the gloomy Palazzo Chigi lay incriminating documents, the report of an investigation which Il Duce had ordered into the affairs of one of the Fascist Government's leading fiscal advisers, the Chemical & Dye Tycoon of Northern Italy, potent Deputy Ernesto Belloni, recently Mayor of Milan, repeatedly assigned as an Italian expert at the War Debt aid Reparations conferences. Evidently the report on Signer Belloni was damning. With characteristic decision Il Duce dashed on paper an order dismissing the Dye Tycoon "from every political and public activity, indefinitely...
...been dropped into a well of silence. If the press were allowed to expose the rascality of ex-Fascists, sooner or later the public might suspect that some Fascist in good standing is a rascal top. Last week the press gag was crammed in tight, as Dictator Mussolini dismissed Tycoon Belloni in disgrace. But rumor cannot be stifled. Soon it was believed that...
Died. Ambrose Monell, 23, of Manhattan, son and heir of the late nickel tycoon (founder and longtime head of the National Nickel Co.) ; near Armonk, N. Y. when an airplane which he and a friend had chartered for a week-end trip crashed, killing both passengers and the pilot...
...Valley district are well aware of the proximity of Proctor & Gamble Co.'s plant?particularly when the wind blows in their direction. Makers of long-famed Ivory and new-famed Camay soaps and of Crisco shortening, Procter & Gamble Co. is great Cincinnati industry, William Cooper Procter is great Cincinnati tycoon. Last week, however, Procter and Gamble showed a trace of Manhattan influence. To J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10,000,000 went 150,000 shares of P. & G. stock and an option on 100,000 more at $80. Assuming use of the option, the house of Morgan will have about...
Three things which the public mind associates vividly with the State of Nevada are divorces, silver ore, the Mackay family. Divorce and the Mackay name were once "linked" in public prints, in 1914 when Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Mackay took the notion to leave her telegraph tycoon husband, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, and marry a surgeon named Blake whom she later divorced (TIME, Aug. 5). But that happened in the East. In Nevada, where the Reno divorce mill grinds exceedingly fast and the ways of women are an old story, the matter caused little comment. In Nevada the Mackay name rings...