Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile below the President's. They were under the impression that all that country was soon to become a national preserve, so they did not bother .themselves much about legal details. As a result they found themselves last week involved in unfavorable publicity when the Madison Timber Corp., owner of the land on which they camp, accused them of being nothing better than squatters...
...Post is a stablemate of the Hope diamond in the sense that it has been dangled as an ornament to its owner. In fact it has been said that the McLeans were credited with three social attributes in Washington: their huge estate, '"Friendship"; the Hope diamond (variously evaluated from $114,000 to $2,000,000) and the Post. The Post and Cincinnati Enquirer were part of the vast estate left by his father John R. McLean, who made a fortune in natural gas. But Ned's father had so little confidence in him that all real control...
...investigating American Bond & Mortgage. Thousands of investors have complained that this company gobbled up their money, returned them nothing. Charges have been made in court that Mr. Moore had a technique of financing a new construction, letting it slip close to bankruptcy and then somehow emerging as its sole owner...
Engaged. Dorothy Rose Duveen, only daughter of Sir Joseph Duveen, London and Manhattan art dealer; and William Francis Cuthbert Garthwaite, 25, son of Sir William Garthwaite, British ship owner and banker; in London...
...Apollo, Adelphi, Shaftesbury, Gaiety, His Majesty's) for a reputed price of $2,000,000-$1,000,000 in cash. Control of London's biggest theatre bloc is now in the hands of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, son of a South African diamond tycoon. Already the owner of the new Cambridge Theatre, Sir Harold plans to acquire two more London playhouses. All these purchases, however, are real state ventures. He will not produce...