Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salesman was Henry Peter Martin Jr., syndicate manager of the Des Moines Register & Tribune. He had been immersed in his usual work of selling comic strips and advice on baby-care one day last summer when Gardner Cowles Jr. (Harvard 1925), son of the paper's owner, called him in. Young Editor Cowles was looking through a copy of The First World War, a photographic history edited by Laurence Stallings and just published by Simon & Schuster (TIME, July 31). It showed recruits in camp, soldiers in battle, soldiers wounded, maimed, dead; crowds at home, prisoners being executed, troop ships...
Died. Charles Ranlett Flint, 84, retired industrial promoter, international agent, sportsman; of arteriosclerosis, after two years' illness; in Washington. Son of a New England clipper fleet owner, he fitted out warships for Brazilian revolutionists; sold torpedo boats and submarines to Russia, a cruiser to Japan; negotiated the Wright Brothers' first sales of airplanes abroad. He gathered a fortune reputed to be $100,000,000, had a hand in forming so many U. S. corporations that newspapers christened him "Father of Trusts...
Still vastly athletic, the owner of an estate in Far Hills, N. J. and a stable of thoroughbreds, he is president of the Essex Fox Hounds and a faithful huntsman. Last week he was re-named head of the hunts committee of the National Steeplechase & Hunt Association...
...with their guardian. Municipal Yardstick, wholly subsidized by him, will be run by the woman who helped teach Mr. Devlet how to trade in bonds- shrewd, plump Mrs. Irma Eggleston, one-time manager of trading at C. F. Childs & Co. Most notable protege is Richard George Brennan, owner of his own bond house before Depression, whom Guardian Devlet rescued last year from a career as longshoreman and salesman of lumber jackets...
...combat his friend's opinions on reconstruction problems as well as to advise farmers what to feed their pigs. From 1883, when Long Island real estate speculations forced Orange Judd to sell his interest, until 1922, when Henry Morgenthau Jr. bought it, the Agriculturist went slowly to seed. Owner Morgenthau's Editor Edward Roe Eastman doubled its circulation, now 161,145. Last May the Agriculturist, beneath its masthead of cows, a tractor, an orchard and a silo, was the first U. S. paper to make a practice of printing gold prices...