Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captain of the 10,000-ton Tel Aviv ("Hill of Spring") was not the revolution, however, but the behavior of a tall, lean-faced man who paced nervously up & down the promenade deck, wandered disconsolately between the kosher kitchen and the ship's synagog. Tel Aviv's owner, President Arnold Bernstein of Palestine Navigation Co., was impatient to get ashore, hurry to Paris for the annual spring meeting of the North Atlantic Passenger Conference (of which he was not a member) to discuss steamship rates...
...help dedicate a great building. On hand for the same purpose were Congressmen, foreign delegates, seven Governors, Sousa's Band. Built with the profits from countless utility promotions and designed to resemble the Washington Monument, the 32-story structure was equipped with sumptuous living quarters for its owner, whose name was displayed in great black letters on all four sides-FOSHAY. Even more remarkable than his tower was Wilbur Burton Foshay, over whose desk used to hang the motto: "Why worry? It won't last. Nothing does...
...sold every share of stock" in any bank before taking office. After last week's revelations it seemed fair to assume that obliging Brother Richard, who evidently considered himself merely a trustee, had also delicately declined to infringe on the voting rights of the virtual, if not legal, owner of the stock...
...penthouse that the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis practically never used, atop his New York Post building in Manhattan, was loud with the talk of literary folk one day last week. The wife of the newspaper's new owner, Julius David Stern, was giving a cocktail party for oldtime subscribers and contributors to St. Nicholas Magazine...
...best steeplechasers in the U. S. Joseph E. Widener bought him in England as a yearling, raced him abroad for two years, shipped him to the U. S., had him trained for steeplechasing, sold him to Fred Alger for $8,000 last June. When Owner Alger's trainer observed that Azucar was outdistancing flat-racers in workouts, they decided to race him at Saratoga. He had won $12,000 in flat racing up to last week. His 27-year-old owner, grandson of President McKinley's Secretary of War Russell Alger, has stables at Grosse Pointe...