Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are far more wild ponies on the Carolina "banks" than at Chincoteague. As the owner of one of these "wild" horses I enclose some photos of a pony round-up on the Hatteras banks. This round-up was for the purpose of dipping them as a preventative against ticks...
Quietly, soberly the jurors filed out to deliberate. They included a watchman, a switchman, a dry goods store owner, two grocers, mechanics and salesmen, a farmer, a sheet metal worker-an average U. S. jury with a national issue in their hands. Theirs was the chance of being first to condemn a kidnapper to death. From Washington, Attorney General Cummings, spearhead of President Roosevelt's anti-crime drive, had sent his Special Assistant Joseph Berry Keenan to help speed up Missouri justice. Late into the night the jurors reviewed the facts: how Walter McGee, Oregon ex-convict, with...
...some miracle this amazing collection survived in nearly perfect condition, the only collection of its kind in the world. Last year its owner, granddaughter of one of Napoleon's secretaries, sold it to an unknown buyer...
...week every one had to be dismantled and trucked down the mountainside. Reason: the rarefied atmosphere of Lake Tahoe (elev. 6,225 ft.) reduces airplane efficiency 30%.* Last week a Sikorsky amphibian of Varney Speed Lines flew from San Francisco Bay Airdrome to the lake, carrying Pilot Monty Sharp, Owner Walter T. Varney, two airline executives. After discharging his three passengers, Pilot Sharp managed to make the first take-off in history from Lake Tahoe...
...injured 180 (TIME, June 19): indictment of North Arlington's Mayor Daniel P. Rentschler and six borough Councilmen for criminal negligence, charging they failed to enforce an ordinance prohibiting storage of inflammables without license; and indictment of Atlantic Pyroxylin's President Alexander Scheinzeit and Joseph Klitch, owner of a warehouse in which the cellulose was stored, on manslaughter charges. Klitch's wife and daughter were killed in the explosion...