Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inactive law practice, magazine articles, Mrs. Roosevelt's schoolteaching and her small furniture shop. Excluded from the estimate are Mrs. Roosevelt's prospective earnings as editor of Bernarr Macfadden's Babies Just Babies a sum largely dependent upon whether or not her husband is elected. Governor Roosevelt's mother, owner of the Hyde Park estate, is credited with capital assets of more than a half million dollars...
...their eyes and stared at a big red figure standing in the paddock.* It was Phar Lap. He had not returned to life, but the glossy coat was Phar Lap's and the ridges beneath it looked precisely like the powerful muscles that had made him great. His owner, David J. Davis, had had the Phar Lap carcass reconstructed, was exhibiting it at Belmont before sending it home to Australia...
Herbert Hoover, raised in the country, is a champion of the small home owner. His committees and conferences and finally the Home Loan Bank system have all been designed to preserve the independence of millions of little bourgeois kings in their little bourgeois castles. Herbert Hoover believes that, besides helping business, protecting and promoting the small home is good for the individualistic integrity of the citizens, for the soul of the nation...
...Walker are awaiting trial. "R. J." Jr. read the coroner's inquest testimony, then announced: "In view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer and owner of the New York Yankees (see p. 20), if winning baseball championships had given him his biggest thrills in life. Replied the Colonel: "Yes and no. . . . Looking back now I doubt if I ever felt more elated than when I was a youngster and on occasions would go galloping out driving...
...Dallas, Galveston the exuberance spread through the highways & byways out into the hot, rich fields of ripening cotton. Most of this year's crop is still to be picked. Profits from the rally will go into the pockets of all growers from the humble renter to the big plantation owner. Anderson Clayton & Co., big Houston brokers, believe that most planters were unable to pledge their crops at local stores or for bank loans, will thus be able to sell for cash. Though little of last year's 13,000,000-bale carryover is owned by planters, most...