Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of obeying, Storm Captain Stennes and his "brown shirts" seized the only Hitler newsorgan in Berlin, Der Angriff, filled an entire edition with abuse of the owner,* sent it out headlined TRAITOR HITLER...
While the storm was at its height, the directors of the biggest U. S. company in the field met to act upon the dividend. Presiding over the meeting was Charles Edward Adams, chairman of United States Industrial Alcohol since 1927, president of Air Reduction Co. (owner of a large minority interest in Alcohol) since 1921. Even were the storm not raging, it is safe to guess that onetime (1902-04) Yale Crewman Adams would have advised curtailment of the dividend, conservation of strength in the long race for profits. For after earnings which rose steadily from...
Westchester County's greatest booster and the man who erected the signs is Eugene O'Reilly, whose earthly home is Jersey City, N. J. Owner of 50 Westchester acres, he goes to look at his property once a week, always finds someone on the train to talk to about his favorite subject: Westchester. He writes letters in his spare time. Among those who have heard from him about Westchester during the past 25 years are: all the Senators, all the Governors, all Cabinet members; the mayors of every U. S. town of more than 25,000 population...
...collection, which is to bear Professor Schofield's name, was the largest private library in Iceland, and was purchased directly from its former owner, Kristjan Kristjansson, a merchant of Reykjavik, who had spent many years gathering it. It contains works both of medieval and of modern literature but is particularly rich in the modern field. Most of the older books are in the original bindings; there are a large number of rarities and some unique items. Together with the Maurer Collection, given to the University in 1904 by the late Professor A. C. Coolidge, it gives Harvard...
...London, J. Harpman, half-owner of the Irish sweepstakes ticket on Easter Hero, was told the favorite had not finished. "Well, never mind," said he. "Now, someone give...