Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press gallery of the House of Representatives sat the towering portly owner of the Houston Chronicle. He was availing himself of his prerogatives as a publisher, but he was not present on any journalistic mission. In fact, Chairman Jesse Jones was present for the perfectly good reason that he wanted to see on what terms his Reconstruction Finance Corp. would be given a new lease on life. Neither Mr. Jones nor any one else had any doubt that the one Recovery agency which has been an unquestionable success in its field would be continued beyond the date on which...
...Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota who hustled to the scene with six students, probed the gravel pit. Seven weapons were found in all, some of them true Folsom points, mixed with 17 pieces of a badly mashed human skeleton. Dr. Jenks called its one-time owner "Browns Valley Man," put his age at 12,000 years. He was 25 to 40 years old when he perished, had a short face and long skull like the Cro-Magnon man of Europe's Stone Age, jutting brow ridges, a wide jaw and wide skull base...
Gestures of this sort, and the fact that attendance is not so far ahead of last year's as it should be in view of the team's prowess, irritate its owner, Chicago's Major Frederic McLaughlin who attends Black Hawks' games with his famed wife, Irene Castle McLaughlin. On Goaltender Chabot, disdainful, lazy and alert, they have no effect whatever. Occupied entirely with his job of making saves-i. e. keeping the puck out of the goal-Chabot is irritated only when he fails to do so. Last fortnight he clubbed a goal judge with...
...original instructions were written in 1814 for an employee of Pratt, Boston merchant, ship owner, and grandfather of the late Josiah Parsons Cooke, professor of Chemistry. Mr. Pratt captained his own ships for years in trade routes between Boston and the West Indies...
...measures contained emergency clauses to prevent police from cracking down unjustly or too soon, but breathed the urgency of prompt building action. For the first time Parliament will be asked to vote a nationwide uniform building subsidy. In England and Wales this may mean to the owner of a new house a maximum of $25 per year from the Government for 20 years, plus $12.50 per year for the same period from local public funds. In Great Britain 21 years is the standard period fixed by private building firms for householders to pay up. Experience shows that they...