Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trouble with Editor Nicholls's scheme was that numbers with "i" or "o" in them lie out of the dial alphabet. And only a few people could translate their numbers into anything even as memorable as "Plesido." For example, best that Owen D. Young could get out of his Butterfield 8-2765 would be AV U A ROK? George Fisher Baker Jr.'s Atwater 9-2360 makes nothing better than...
Married, Josephine Young, 24, only daughter of Owen D. Young; and Everett Needham Case, 30, assistant secretary of General Electric Co., son of Board Chairman James Herbert Case of Manhattan's Federal Reserve Bank; in Van Hornesville, N. Y. by President Richard Eddy Sykes of St. Lawrence University, alma mater of the bride's parents...
...Congress assembles Dec. 7. President Hoover was confident that, with the support already lined up, he could have the debt laws suspended in the first week of the session. As further political insurance, the President also had his moratorium plan approved by potent Democrat Owen D. Young, chairman of the committee which fixed German Reparations "permanently'' in 1929. Announced Mr. Young: "The proposal . . . is not only the action of a wise creditor but the helpful word of a great democracy. Coming at a time when we are all beginning to doubt whether a democracy could act promptly, wisely...
...five other prescribed gangsters against whom the Government will concentrate in New York are: Irving Wexler ("Waxey Gordon"), East Side whiskey peddler; Owen "Owney" Madden, extortionist, laundry racketeer; Larry Fay, shady proprietor of night clubs, taxicabs, milk associations; Bill Duffy, cabaret owner and prize fight manager; Giro Terranova, "The Artichoke King," who collects his levy from markets...
Engaged. Josephine Young, only daughter of Owen D. Young, Bryn Mawr graduate, employee in National Broadcasting Co.'s educational department; and Everett Needham Case, assistant secretary of General Electric Co., confidential secretary to Owen D. Young, secretary of Princeton's Class of 1922, son of Board Chairman James Herbert Case of Manhattan's Federal Reserve Bank...