Word: tycooning
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...Mayflower Hotel, entrained for Florida. With him went Mrs. Hoover and an entourage of friends, newsmen, photographers, hawkshaws. Mr. Hoover had canceled his proposed West Indian trip, was to spend a pre-inaugural month on semi-vacation at the home of James Cash Penney, famed chain store dry-goods tycoon...
...directorship meant no immediate labor for Mr. Smith. Like President-Elect Hoover, he departed for a southern vacation. His itinerary called for visits with friend Carl Espy in Savannah, Ga., potato Tycoon Frank W. Nix in St. Augustine, Fla., Circusman John Ringling in Sarasota, Fla. Most of the six weeks he will spend near Miami. Asked if he intended to call on Mr. Hoover, Mr. Smith said: "That will be news when...
After a preliminary, characteristic sweep of the left hand over his thin black hair, Tycoon Young hitched his chair a trifle and said...
...wanted four billion lire. Concerning the limits of the new State, the Holy Office intimated that it would encompass not only the environs of the Vatican but the sumptuous Roman Palazzo Doria-Pamphili-a storehouse of priceless art treasures-and also the present mansion of U. S. Public Utilities Tycoon Nicholas Frederic Brady, recently invested by Pope Pius with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great (TIME, June...
After some reflection, Viscount Ennismore indicated that a Socialist Tycoon who bought enough penny shares to enable him to contribute his whole fortune in ?100 units to Neighbors Ltd. might receive "modest stipends" as follows: 1) If single, ?3 a week ($14.58); 2) If married ?4 ($19.44); 3) If a parent, 10 shillings ($2.44) extra for each child. Asked how he himself would subsist on ?3 a week, Bachelor Viscount Ennis more said: "I shall take a chamber, not too dear, and make ends meet by embroidering...