Word: tycooning
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Mooted but unconfirmed is the tale that behind Dictator Carmona's sudden shoe decree looms a man named Bat'a. Famed, he, Thomas Bat'a, is the Shoe Tycoon of Czechoslovakia (TIME...
...potent Cleveland Trust Co., onetime president of the Cleveland Aluminum Rolling Mills Co., Cleveland Foundry Co., financial tactician of the 1924 Y. M. C. A. drive for $3,000,000, ubiquitous figure in all Cleveland drives, onetime national treasurer of the Association, Y-Worker Ramsey qualifies also as a tycoon. Said many a lesser Y-worker: "His will be a business administration...
Died. Howard E. Wurlitzer, 57, band instrument tycoon of Cincinnati, son of the late Rudolph Wurlitzer, who founded the Wurlitzer Co.; of influenza; in Manhattan...
Died. Richard Hudnut, 66, U. S. perfume tycoon, onetime Manhattan druggist; in Juan-les-Pins, France...
Died. William Hamlin Childs, 71, cleansing powder tycoon (Bon Ami) of Brooklyn, N. Y.; of acute appendicitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Childs casually accepted a formula in part payment of a debt, developed Bon Ami from it. Experts recalled that Lydia Pinkham's formula was accepted by the lady as part payment also...