Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Automobile Show that opened in Manhattan last week. Yet for exhibitors who had staked millions on their 1936 offerings, the Show was as exciting as ever. For the public, on the other hand, it has steadily lost zest since the duster & goggles era. In those days the average automobile owner knew his car intimately, could take it apart even if he could not put it together again. Today, when many a citizen in the most motorized nation on earth never sees the engine of his car except when a service station attendant lifts the hood to check the oil, most...
Back, bald Jack Blackburn, 52-year-old onetime lightweight boxer who taught Negro Heavyweight Joe Louis how to fight, set out one evening last week to invest some of his earnings in Chicago Black Belt real estate. When the youthful owner of a house would not let him inspect the premises. Boxer Blackburn, who once did five years for killing a man, started a fight. Bested, he withdrew, returned with three friends, began blazing away with pistols at his opponent. Caught in the cross fire were a 9-year-old pickaninny, a blackamoor of 69, who subsequently died. Boxer Blackburn...
...weeks this summer Director Barr toured The Netherlands, arranging to borrow the pictures he needed from Dutchman van Gogh's nephew, now a prosperous Amsterdam engineer, and from the Kröller-Müller Foundation at Wassenaar, owner of the most important van Gogh collection in the world. Though Nephew van Gogh was willing to lend his pictures, the Foundation first went through a spasm of nervous hesitation...
...story, knife-thin building some 30 years ago Colonel Luke Lea founded the Nashville Tennessean. Where the roulette table once stood is now the city desk. Trick doors, gaudy ceilings, elaborate decorations furnish a lurid background. A telephone switchboard marks the spot where the Southern Turf's onetime owner killed himself...
...Grand Coulee (Wash.) News, 'R. C." inserted an advertisement: "Found-lady's purse left in my car while parked. Owner can have same by describing property and paying for this ad. If owner can explain satisfactorily to my wife how purse got into car, will pay for ad myself...