Who was Daddy Warbucks?

[Halsten Aastebol]

At 23:32 23.09.02 -0700, lgiver at postoffice.pacbell.net wrote:
>I don't
>know much about Little Orphan Annie, but I suppose at some point
>she was adopted by Big Daddy Warbucks.
>                                        ---Larry Giver.

Warbucks.... Does that name suggest that he made his bucks through war 
related activities during WW1? (selling arms, profiting from black market 
or something)

Regards
Halsten