Word: tycooning
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...Where Spaniards looked for gold and life-everlasting and pirates later lolled at ease amid hidden booty, U. S. tycoons of today have built winter mansions and game preserves. The Penney estate at Belle Isle, though it views Miami's skyscrapers across Biscayne Bay, is as secluded as any nest that a pirate ever made for himself on Bimimi or the Dry Tortugas. The late Henry M. Flagler, founder of Florida's perpetual youth, was not the first modern tycoon to visit the Southeast and his railroad and hotels meant more to the commonalty than to Mr. Flagler...
...oldest estates on Tycoon's Coast is that of Bernard Mannes Baruch at Georgetown, S. C. He inherited it from his father, who was a surgeon on the staff of General Robert...
...Carolinas as a lumber State, not far behind piney Georgia, whose output is more than a billion board-feet per annum. And, though few people know it, huge herds of beef cattle range the plains of Florida's northern interior. Many a Texas steer, like many a tired tycoon, goes to Florida...
Divorced. Howard Henry Spaulding of Chicago; by Mrs. Catherine Barker Spaulding, $30,000,000 heiress of John H. Barker, railroad car tycoon of Michigan City, Ind. Mrs. Spaulding charged habitual drunkenness...
Died. Irving Berlin Jr., 24 days old, grandson of Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay, son of Songwriter Irving Berlin & Mrs. Ellin Mackay Berlin of Manhattan; of a heart attack; on Christmas morning, in Manhattan...