Word: tycooning
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...farm efficiently and rotate their crops came the founding of Agro-Joint, at his suggestion, with the financial support of a parent board, the so-called J. D. C. or "Joint Distribution Committee" (of the U. S.) which is now chairmanned by famed Felix M. Warburg, Manhattan banking tycoon...
Although both twins continue damsels in the theatrical sense, Jennie has been married several times and Rosie once, last March, secretly, to Mortimer ("Morty") Davis Jr., Canadian tobacco tycoon...
Manhattan rubbermen recalled that rubber tycoon Tan Kah-kee is a slender, old fashioned Chinaman some five feet two inches tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve...
...skipper is Rear-Admiral Ernest Augustus Taylor, 52, blunt, peppery and retired into politics. As Commander of the battle cruiser Renown he carried Edward of Wales to Canada (1919) and to Australia and New Zealand (1920). Smart Americans have met Admiral Taylor in Manhattan as the guest of Art-Tycoon Otto Kahn...
Sued for Divorce. O. M. Burke (soap mameluke) by Helen Kelly, successively the wife of Frank Jay Gould, R. H. Thomas (sugar tycoon), and Prince Vlora of Albania; in Paris...