Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown plays with deadly seriousness which is at times intensely funny, and with few of the rubberface antics which used to make his acting tasteless. A more loyal baseball enthusiast than Elmer the Great. Cinemactor Brown is part owner of the Kansas City Blues...
...February 1931 (on the day that Auburn stock touched 205 after a rise of over 100 points in six weeks) he said, "The last Auburn stock I bought was at 105. I am a large owner and have been for a long time. . . . My position has been and is only that of a darn longtime investor." (Last week Auburn sold around...
...Boston Red Sox under their new owner Thomas Yawkey and the St. Louis Browns, with some new outfielders and pitchers, still look weak...
...George Herman ("Babe") Ruth: his annual argument with Colonel Jacob Ruppert, beer-brewing owner of the New York Yankees baseball team, about salary; by $2,000; in St. Petersburg, Fla. After absolutely refusing to pay Ruth more than $50,000 for one year ($25,000 less than last year), Colonel Ruppert, presumably in good humor at the passage of the beer bill, gave in last week, hurried north to | see to his brewery...
...Author, though he is known to would-be thoughtful playgoers on both sides of the Atlantic as a deliciously or irritatingly mystifying playwright, got to the ripe age of 45 without writing a play. Born in Girgenti, Sicily (1867) as son of a sulphur-mine owner, he wrote five books of poetry before he was 23, took his degree in philosophy at Germany's University of Bonn, and went back to Rome to teach Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize...