Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expeditions to remote spots upon the earth and off it-cloud-piercing peaks, profound caverns, world's ends, experimental rocketeering. Last week at the New Jersey Newspaper Institute, the man whom Messrs. Ochs & Wiley sent to Antarctica to write daily rhapsodies about the Byrd expedition, eloquent Reporter Russell Owen, explained: "The newspaper in this age of uneconomic unhappiness and social unrest has discovered in the modern' explorer and aviator an excellent anodyne to our disappointing and humdrum life. Ephemeral their exploits may be, but for the time that they are chronicled I think we all get from them...
Playwright Owen Davis is to be praised for having written a whopping good thriller. Even the most iconoclastic devotee of mystery fiction could find no flaw, no cheating on the part of the author...
Resigned. Owen Cosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant, 1st Baron of Carmarthen, 67, Chairman of 40 steamship lines (including Royal Mail, White Star, Union Castle) and building companies, a bank, a railroad, an insurance company; from the chairmanship of Harland & Wolff. Ltd. (?12,000,000 Belfast shipbuilders). When shareholders commented on his multifarious activities and companies in March, he retorted: "I do not consider 40 as many...
Will H. Hays, tsar of U. S. cinema, sailed home from France last week feeling something like Owen D. Young. Under his chairmanship a meeting of German and U. S. cinemanufacturers (TIME, June 30) had at last concluded a Pact of Paris on patents and markets...
When on the eve of its public sale Macmillan Co. last month abruptly recalled from all book dealers Roosevelt, The Story of a, Friendship, by Owen Wister, (TIME, June 23) book reviewers were puzzled, historians baffled, as to what was the matter with the book. The publishers spoke vaguely of "certain corrections'' it was "necessary" to make but declined to explain what grave thing was forcing them to expend perhaps $100,000 on repaging, replating, reprinting, rebinding. Author Wister was in Europe. His family referred to "anonymous protests...