Word: mortgagee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One of the many little-known facts about William Randolph Hearst's fantastically tangled affairs is that his rival Los Angeles publisher, Harry Chandler of the Times, holds a mortgage on San Simeon. Last month in Los Angeles, rather than embarrass his strapped debtor, Mr. Chandler agreed to extend...
The man responsible for wangling a new mortgage out of Harry Chandler, sending Joe Connolly to Chicago and telling the .Consolidated directors what to do, the man whose tough job it is to hold together what is left of the Hearst empire, is a small, dry Manhattan lawyer named Clarence...
But for nearly two years he has just sat there, no longer absolute boss even of his papers' policies. He still owns fabulous Wyntoon and San Simeon (subject to Mr. Chandler's mortgage), still dines celebrities from silver plate in medieval splendor (on his allowance from Judge Shearn...
"The test of a man is the fight he makes," is the motto that hangs in the San Francisco office of shy, chunky Banker Ashby Oliver Stewart. This is the sort of spirit to endear him to famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, currently facing the biggest fight of his career...
Popularity of a movie star can be measured by box-office value, fan mail, exhibitors' polls, salary. Owners of theatres in small villages and small cities, where westerns are most favored and where Hollywood's most touted stars often play to empty seats, call Autry the industry'...