Word: tycooning
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...Trunkene Silen (The Drunken Silenus) reeling over a woman and her babes, supported by a satyr and a blackamoor, followed by a panther. This picture, long owned by the late Prince John of Lichtenstein, was sold, last week, for $30,000 to Mark Lindebaum, Viennese engineer and oil tycoon...
...later years, as head of a great railroad, Mr. Rea was not only rail tycoon but public figure as well. Thus many a person knew that he belonged to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, that he supported Alfred Smith in the late campaign. He was famed, too, as a woodchopper and as a collector of English antique silver. Doubtless many of the thousands who this week passed through Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station realized that in it Samuel Rea has an enduring and a fitting memorial...
Died. Jesse Tyler Dingee. 63, Brooklyn, N. Y., cork tycoon; in Brooklyn. Unable to walk for 15 years, Corkman Dingee conducted his extensive business interests from...
Died. Louis Terah Haggin, 81, of Manhattan, president of Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., son of the late famed James Ben Ali Haggin ('Forty-niner, racing man, hops and sheep raiser, mining tycoon, connoisseur), uncle of Artist Ben AH Haggin, onetime designer of living tableaux in the Ziegfeld Follies; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Died. Asa Griggs Candler, 77, of Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola tycoon & philanthropist, brother of Methodist Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta; in Atlanta...