Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit to end 'this senseless waste of money." Free Press workers make a big thing of Eddie Guest's camaraderie and intimacy with the staff. He still has a desk in the office and, according to office gossip, will probably run the paper some day when aging Owner Edward Douglas Stair retires, His own success still bewilders him a little. Modestly says he: "I do the same kind of jingles that James Whitcomb Riley used o write. ... All he tried to do was to be sincere. . . . The only thing I contributed was a little time which I gambled...
Case concerned Tennessee Publishing Co. (Nashville Tennesseean). Before he went to jail and the company went into receivership, Tennessee Publishing was owned by Nashville's Luke Lea. The present owner of the common stock, E. W. Carmack, submitted several 77-B reorganization plans to Nashville's Federal District Judge John J. Gore, who refused to approve them on the ground that they required coercion of a majority of the creditors. The case turned on the point that 77-B not only provides a means of clubbing a stubborn minority into line if two-thirds of the creditors...
...rafters they applauded social-minded Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josephine Roche, great friend of Labor, first Colorado mine owner to bargain with U. M. W., who declared: "To stigmatize the battle to bring security to our people ... is nothing less than a travesty on justice. . . . 'O Liberty! what crimes are committed in thy name...
Bank Night works simply. In his lobby a theatre owner places a large book. Persons who wish to do so may enter their names in the book opposite numbers corresponding to which the box office keeps a book of tickets. On Bank Night, usually Monday, when receipts are normally lowest, the tickets are placed in a drum on the stage. One number is drawn from the drum and announced. If the person whose name is entered for that number in the lobby book appears on the stage within a specified time, usually three minutes, he receives a cash prize...
...when his father is absent, which is about five months of the year. Slight, baldish, Mario Giannini is at 41 a veteran of one of the classic wars of U. S. financial history-the long Depression fight in which old Amadeo Giannini lost, then regained control of Transamerica Corp., owner of Bank of America. Son Mario has a severe Latin countenance, a subtle, acute intelligence, keeps his fingers on every phase of his big bank's operations. Among his associates he is liked and admired but. reserved, taciturn, poor at public relations,, he has gained a host of bitter...