Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newshawks at the White House one day last week watched the dandruff-flecked coat collar of Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins as its owner hurried up a corridor to keep an appointment with President Roosevelt. Later the bowlegs of Hugh Samuel Johnson carried that old-time cavalryman over the Presidential threshold. And when General Johnson reappeared, it was to announce without much pleasure that he had just been made Federal Works Progress Administrator for New York City. Boarding a plane with his faithful secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, the General therewith flew off to New York...
Last month George Herman ("Babe") Ruth resigned from the Boston Braves, calling its owner, Judge Emil Fuchs, a "double-crosser" (TIME, June 10). Last week Judge Fuchs lost another player, Second Baseman Edward Moriarity who had just graduated from Holy Cross College. On its championship team he had been captain and second baseman, with a batting average of .486. In a week of play for the Braves, Moriarity batted .324, showed promise as a fielder. Then he abruptly resigned. Calling no names, Batter Moriarity announced he hoped to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood...
Four days later they learned that the ketch Hamrah had dropped anchor at Sydney, Nova Scotia. Of her crew of six, three young New Englanders survived. They told how, eleven days out of Newport, her socialite owner and skipper, Robert R. Ames, had been washed overboard in a boiling mid-Atlantic sea. His Son Richard went after him with a line, was followed by Son Harry in a boat, which capsized. With Hamrah partly disabled, the survivors hove to for two days. Then Charles Tillinghast Jr. took the helm, managed to remember how to lay a course by a sextant...
...comfortable sport in the world, transatlantic sailing appeals mostly to men .who, if they must live dangerously, have to supply their own danger. Biggest boat (72 ft. overall) in the Newport-to-Bergen race was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Caviar Tycoon Vadim Makaroff. Next biggest was Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade, was sailing Philip Le Boutilliers new boat...
...printer-publishers were onetime typesetters on the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, Union (morning & evening) and Daily News, on strike since last month (TIME, May 27). When the strike occurred, hard-boiled Sherman Hoar Bowles, owner of all four Springfield newspapers, published them in typewritten form until he could get strikebreakers on the job. After four weeks on the picket line, the strikers scraped together enough money to launch the Journal, a 16-page, 2? tabloid full of local news. Two unemployed newshawks helped them. Local merchants, theatres, lunchrooms, liquor stores bought liberal advertising space. Press run: 20,000. All proceeds went...