Word: tycooning
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Assistant-Attorney General Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt started another speaking tour, in West Virginia, Tennessee, South Dakota, Minnesota, California. At St. Paul, she was to be matron of honor at the wedding of Miss Laura Ellen Volstead (daughter) and Carl Joys Lomen, Alaska's reindeer tycoon...
...grandiose fortnight that ended for Charles Michael Schwab in Manhattan last week. He had sat, dined and posed with the country's other industrial tycoons (TIME, Oct 29). He gave $25,000 to the Republican national campaign fund. His Bethlehem Steel Corp. made its report for the third quarter of this year. (Its business and profits this year have run somewhat less than last. But production now is at 94% of capacity and is efficient. Directors again decided to pay no common dividends.) Lastly, happily and philosophically Tycoon Schwab presided over the yearly general meeting of the American Iron...
...great was the commotion in the stock exchanges that few heard Tycoon Melchett's pronouncements on world affairs. As a Tory, he will support Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's government in the coming British elections. Students of English politics recalled, however, that his Toryism is of curiously recent vintage. His was the influence and his the bank account which helped the Liberal Lloyd George to power and kept him there. As Sir Alfred Mond, he took the Ministry of Public Works in the first Lloyd George cabinet...
...Manhattan, last week, none asked him to explain his politics. But bankers asked him of the progress of the Finance Company of Great Britain and America, Ltd., which is the few-months old international child of a luncheon-party with Tycoon Albert Henry Wiggin, Chairman of the Board of the Chase National Bank (Manhattan...
Thus the Melchett month ended. Having possibly merged, having certainly titillated, Tycoon Melchett prepared to stride unmirthfully up the gangplank, take off his hat and put it on again, glance at the dark Palisades, and sail"for England...