Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporters know that the little parallelogram of green lawn beside the Yacht Squadron is many times harder to get into than the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. Royal influence means nothing at all to the Squadron's admission committee. Sir Thomas Lipton, probably the best known yacht owner in the world, was one of Edward VII's best friends. Despite all King Edward's blustering, the squadron consistently refused to admit Sir Thomas. No reasons were ever given, but gossipeers said it was because Sir Thomas was "in trade," that his America's Cup racing was considered...
Into President Hoover's office one day last week marched short Representative Sol Bloom of Manhattan, oldtime music publisher, theatre owner and now a director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Beside him marched beaming, grey-haired George Michael Cohan, famed flagwaving actor, producer and songwriter. After presenting Mr. Cohan to the President. Congressman Bloom elaborately explained that the author of "Over There" had composed a new song to be used officially by the commission for its nation-wide celebrations next year. Declared Mr. Cohan: "The name of my song, Mr. President, is 'Father of the Land...
...been a Peer of Britain only since 1923. In revenge for that he traces his ancestry back to Vortigern, King of the Britons (who in turn reputedly traced his ancestry back to the Emperor Maximus), and at 40 had made himself master of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., virtual owner of the Union Castle, White Star, Lamport & Holt and half a dozen other lines, the most powerful figure in the world's mercantile marine...
...September and October, people began to speak of him as a "fall horse," a horse seasoned instead of staled by summer's competition, fastest on crisp autumn days. Last year was Sun Beau's best season: the prizes he won amounted to $105,005 and his owner, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, decided to enter him in the $100,000 Agua Caliente Handicap. An odds-on favorite, Sun Beau was badly beaten by Robert M. Eastman's seven-year-old bay gelding, Mike Hall...
Died. Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse (Al G. Barnes), 68, circusman, founder and longtime owner of Barnes's Circus; after a lingering illness; in Indio, Calif. He started his show in 1895 with a pony, a phonograph, a stereopticon. A colorful participant at every performance, he would lead the opening parade seated on the head of a mammoth elephant. Two years ago he sold his interests to Circusman John Ringling...