Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jones, owner of Washington's famed Audley Farms racing stable, honored Idaho's Senator & Mrs. Borah by renaming his Bright Knight-Princess Doreen filly "Mary Borah." The filly's previous name, which Mr. Jones had found pre-empted in the studbook, was Princess Mary...
...make no bones about that. Usually I am admitted, and a surprising number of the bartenders have heard of me. Sometimes the customers drink in my presence. . . . Usually when they hear what I have to say the drinking stops, for I always say to the bartender or the owner: 'Aren't you ashamed to be in such a contemptible business?' " Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and President Matthew Scott Sloan of New York Edison Co. were guests of Bernard Gimbel, department-store man, at a luncheon in Manhattan. Chaffed Tycoon Sloan: "Now tell us, what made Madame Queen...
...first subject of 1931 research program of the Harvard University School of City Planning, a study of zoning which promises to be valuable to landowner, realtor, banker and owner of residential property is being directed by one of the most widely-known city planning engineers in the country, Harland Bartholomew...
...Colton, the elderly owner, is carrying on with Mayme Taylor,* the high-wire artiste (redheaded Lee Patrick, villainess of June Moon). His niece (Ruth Easton) has fallen for a cornet player (Alan Bunce) who is suspected of being a stool pigeon for a rival circus. The rascally son of the privilege car's rascally proprietor unexpectedly returns from jail to take up counterfeiting. There are also various subplots which flow back and forth across a stage crowded with amusing, if too finely drawn, circus types-"razorbacks" (laborers), cootch dancers, a harmless dope fiend, a harmless kleptomaniac (funny William Foran...
...three railroads-Texas & Pacific, St. Louis-Southwestern, International Great Northern (Missouri-Pacific controlled)-heard joyously that two big oil companies had dropped the idea of building pipe lines into the new eastern Texas oil field. Reason thought to be behind the decision was that Texas laws provide that the owner of a pipe line must buy all oil offered, whereas for shipment by rail a company needs buy only what it wishes. Perhaps an additional reason was the rumor that oil in this prodigious new field is coming in at increasingly high temperatures. To oilmen, that is a dire warning...