Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native owner under Dutch rule is neither cheated nor expected to show the commercial genius of a Firestone or a Ford. He sits back in his Rolls-Royce (literally), draws his rent, smokes cigars about the color of his skin, and frequently elects to go about as ill-clad as Mr. Gandhi...
...campus be without the spectacle of Mr. Berry making a weekly pilgrimage to his laundress? . . . What would the Sun's advertising columns be without Mr. Berry's frequent full-page contributions? . . . Mr. Berry belongs to Cornell. Mr. Berry's hat is just as much a part of its owner as his glasses with the heavy black band, or his full dress suit, or his tweed knickers...
...trading account was sold to individuals who would let the pool's managers handle all its affairs but who would share in its profits or losses. One member of the pool was William Frank Kenny, rich Brooklyn contractor, faithful friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime 20%-owner of the New York "Giants" baseball team (National Exhibition Co.). Since Contractor Kenny had been a Chrysler director (1925-28), since Jules Semon Bache and Edward F. Hutton were on the Chrysler board, it seemed that this big pool had a sure future. But last week the Bache and Hutton firms went...
...most important of the first editions are "Paradise Lost," published in 1637, "Lycidas," in 1638, and a copy of "Comus," belonging to the owner of Ludlow castle, where the masque was first performed. There is also a copy of "Pindar," owned by John Milton and bearing notes written by him in the margins...
...nonetheless swam with the tide of publicity and patients. They opened auxiliary clinics at Los Angeles and Long Beach. They went before a Senate committee to argue for Government aid for cancer research. They gained a patent for their extract.* Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners, widow of the Buffalo ship owner, newspaper publisher and political boss, William James ("Fingy") Conners, gave Drs. Coffey & Humber her $1,000,000 estate, "The Monastery," at Huntington, L. I. (TIME...