Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sell and erect a house in four days. Landscape gardening service will be available. Later perhaps furniture will be offered by General Houses. Because the houses will be of known value it is thought that they will be easily borrowed upon or "turned in" like used cars whenever the owner wishes. The matter of value is considered important by General Houses, which is aware that under present conditions a homeowner may usually obtain only 55% on a conservative first mortgage. The company plans to consolidate first and second mortgages, to lend 75% of the value of house & lot on reasonable...
...Sidney Kent, onetime Paramount general manager. Winfield Sheehan, who last winter suffered a nervous breakdown and was reported out of Fox, last week re turned to his job of general manager. Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor have lost control of Paramount to John Hertz, taxi tycoon, and Theatre Owner Sam Katz of Chicago. Last week Paramount's pro duction manager, Ben Schulberg, resigned. Joseph Kennedy, onetime board chairman of Pathe, was reported planning to pur chase First National studios from Warner Brothers for a new company, with Mr. Schulberg in charge of production. Harry Cohn became president of Columbia...
...denounced large church weddings as "often vulgar as well as pagan." As head of the Corporation of Trinity Church, he administered the richest U. S. parish.* Died. Robert Scott Lovett, 71, board chairman of Union Pacific Railroad; after an operation; in Manhattan. A slow-spoken son of a slave owner, he entered railroading as a stump-puller when the Houston, East & West Texas pushed through his father's farm. Rising as a local attorney for Texas & Pacific, he was spotted by the late Tycoon Edward Henry Harriman, who quickly made him head of all his lines, appointed him administrator...
Seventeen years ago when Cincinnati's Zoological Gardens were in peril of closing, two wealthy women came forward and saved them. Cincinnati Traction Co., owner of the property, threatened to break it up, sell it as building lots. Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft, wife of the publishing half-brother of William Howard Taft, gave $125,000 to prevent the split-up. Another $125,000 was given by Mrs. Mary Emery whose father-in-law, Thomas Emery, made one of the first big real estate fortunes in Cincinnati, increased it by manufacturing lard oil and candles...
...thousands of investors who bought Kreuger & Toll and International Match securities obtain redress from the bankers of these companies? Last week an answer to this much-asked question drew closer. In Manhattan one Florence Bramson, owner of five International Match $1,000 debenture bonds (worth $17.50 each last week), brought suit against Guaranty Co. and Lee, Higginson & Co., charging not fraud but misrepresentation of facts. Another suit against Lee, Higginson & Co. was filed last week by Alice F. and Edith S. Tilton of Milton, Mass., owners of Kreuger & Toll securities. They too charged misrepresentation, sought their money back...