Word: zaharoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia. Drafted by Wilson as director of the Emergency Fleet Corp. in 1917, in two years Schwab put a U. S. Merchant Marine on the seas. After the war he went back to making and spending millions: he hobnobbed with Sir Basil Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere and the King of Sweden at Monte Carlo, built an $8,000,000 chateau on Riverside Drive, bought a 1,000-acre estate at Loretto, Pa., his birthplace. In the depth of Depression he never lost his faith in big business. Said he: "I am an optimist...
Suppose a body-builder like Bernarr Macfadden took a tip from a professional strikebreaker like Bergoff, and then prospered like nobody's business until he turned into a potentate like the late, generally unlamented Sir Basil Zaharoff. On such an alarming supposition John Stuart Martin bases General Manpower, his first novel...
...Owen Rohde's first husband, turned up in Manhattan, gaily prattled to newshawks about her madcap life. Highlights: 1) a prison term for the shooting of a French doctor's wife; 2) a romance with the late mysterious octogenarian Munitions Maker Sir Basil ("Arms and the Men") Zaharoff; 3) a trip to British Honduras to call on an unknown man who had written her a letter. Explained Lady Owen: "I was very eccentric...
Best-known Greek adventurers of all time have been Homer's Ulysses and the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, munitions tycoon and Europe's ''Mystery Man." Until last week, no one thought of drawing a parallel between the two. Forever Ulysses, a fictionized biography, makes its hero a modern Greek named Ulysses whose career, recalling Zaharoff's, also recalls Ulysses...
...body of Jacob Zwanger, onetime Soviet Vice-Commissar of Harbors for the Black Sea region. The police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gunrunner and onetime salesman for the late munitions tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house was a radio transmitting set powerful enough to reach Europe, a dozen microphones and dictographs. Leading from the basement to the orange grove was a 400-yd. tunnel...