Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. First rumors were that the paper would be retrieved by the Herbert Foster Gunnison interests from whom Publisher Gannett bought it and who still hold substantial mortgages. Instead the purchaser was announced as a syndicate organized by Managing Editor Harris McCabe Crist (who was a former co-owner with the Gunnisons) and M. Preston Goodfellow, oldtime Eagle employe and technical "publisher"' of the paper under the Gannett regime...
...PRESENT OWNER OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY" (Dreiser's capitals) to that fact that in Tacoma, Wash, "on February 19, 1931 . . . sixteen men were poisoned by food from the Volunteers of America soup kitchen, from which four died...
...bought an interest (along with Jonathan Ogden Armour and Albert David Lasker) in the Chicago Cubs, the money-losing, badly run National League baseball club whose members lived so riotously that Wrigley virtually took on the role of reformer as well as part owner. In 1924 he bought out the Lasker interest, became owner of about 71% of the Cubs' stock. For the last five years the club made money, in 1929 won the pennant but failed to win the world's championship...
Applicant for the receivership was Mr. Spreckels himself, owner of $10,000,000 par value securities in the company and its creditor for $50,000. Depression has hit the company so badly that it has only nominal cash, has current liabilities almost twice as great as current assets, has paid no dividends since 1924, is accumulating interest debts at the rate of $300,000 a year...
...there's reason to believe that the real estate business is in good condition. If you're shaky about buying now, glance at these headlines: "Lincoln was Home Owner When Elected President ... Green Sidewalks, Buildings Predicted by Eye Specialist." They contain a subtle urge; there is something fine, something of the patriotic command in them. But the statement which somehow has the most appeal is found hidden away on page seven of this section. In its modest little way it says, "In every period of depression a substantial redistribution of wealth occurs. History will repeat itself this time...