Word: tycooning
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...Tycoon (Japanese: Dai?Great; Kun?Noble One, or Prince) used by the latter Shoguns of the Tokugawa Line descended from leasu (Seventeenth Century) and up to the abdication of Tokugawa Yoshinobu...
Died. Edward C. Cornish, 57, banking tycoon of West Palm Beach, Fla.; by suicide; in New Orleans. Wrote Banker Cornish, "A few years added or subtracted from eternity make no difference...
...Tennis Tycoon William Tatem Tilden II must have been pleasantly surprised that despite the ban placed upon his tennis playing activities by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association and extended last week by the International Lawn Tennis Federation, he could still play as an amateur in Russia or in Abyssinia. In the 35 principal tennis-playing countries of the world, including Cuba, Japan and Monaco, he will be considered a professional, because last summer he wrote reports of British tournaments for U. S. news-sheets...
Father Claus took a boat and went to Hawaii. King Kalakaua borrowed some $750,000 from the sugar tycoon, and in return, gave him a title and exclusive rights to raise sugar in Hawaii. Then they fought over an issue of debased coinage. Kalakaua let the sugar trust into Hawaii. Father Claus ceremoniously returned his medals and his title...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Great Britain's retired Secretary of State for India, last week, was appointed a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of which Britain's Chemical Tycoon Baron Melchett is head. Director Lord Birkenhead will receive an annual salary of $10,000 plus one-half of one per cent of the profits. Last year this percentage would have represented more than $100,000, since I. C. I.'s profits were...