Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zachary Taylor ("Zack") Miller, onetime owner of famed 101 Ranch, was jailed in Newkirk, Okla. for failure to pay a $100 attorney fee and $40 a month separate maintenance to his estranged wife who still lives in his house. Said he: "So far as I'm concerned, it's a life sentence. I'll never pay it, for I'm broke." Two days later Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray granted him full pardon, compared his case with that of Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean, his judge with infamous Judge Jeffreys of 17th Century England...
Last Tuesday, the services for such a game of the Boston Braves, a professional eleven were offered by Goorge Marshall, owner of the team, in a letter sent to Mayors Curley and Russell. L. H. Leary'05, former Harvard end and end coach, was asked by the mayors to act as general chairman of the matter of a charity game for the unemployed, but was not, as stated in Boston and New York papers, commissioned to organize a team to oppose the Braves. Leary emphatically declared last night that the project was still in an embryonic state, that President Lowell...
...were grouped into two new operating subsidiaries, one combining services to Africa's west coast, one to South America's east coast. Lord Essendon became head of the South American group. Famed Union Castle Mail Steamship Co. serving Capetown and Africa's east coast, Lamport & Holt, owner of the ill-fated Vestris, and White Star continued to operate as separate Royal Mail subsidiaries...
...background a staff officer is apparently trying to keep a charging regiment of cuirassiers (copied from Meissonier's Friedland) from trampling the entire assemblage underfoot. Three years ago the picture was unveiled in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles by the mother of Theatre Owner Sid Grauman with the remark, "It is the work of genius...
...runs. When these economies failed to shore up crumbling merchant marines, pride and profit have dictated mergers. North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American signed a 50-year pact partitioning their North Atlantic trade. In his Fascist forge Benito Mussolini hammered three big Italian firms into the Italia Line, cocky owner of the new S. S. Rex and S. S. Conte di Savoia. Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson interests combined to take over tottering U. S. Lines. Japan's two largest shipping companies, Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japan Mail Steamship Co.) and Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co.) last year agreed...