Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Socialist Nominee Thomas of the 6th District: "It represents a cross-section of Greater New York. Yet it represents in Congress one man-John McCooey, politically the owner of Brooklyn. He gave to Brooklyn ex-Judge Vause [see p. 19], he names all candidates." Among McCooey's puppets, said Socialist Thomas, is the Democratic incumbent, Congressman Andrew Lawrence Somers, onetime (1925) "baby member" of the House. Political observers guessed that high-minded Socialist Thomas, backed by the League for Independent Political Action of which famed Philosopher John Dewey is chairman, had chosen the 6th District less in hopes...
Stronger Sinclair. Apparently planning tremendous expansion, Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. last week girded itself for corporate frays. First of the preparatory steps was announcement that stock-holders of Sinclair, joint owner with Standard Oil Co. of Indiana of Sinclair Pipe Line Co. and Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co., will vote on proposed sale to Standard of its interest in these two companies for $72,500,000 cash. Significant was the comment of Chairman Harry Ford Sinclair regarding this deal: "Conditions with respect to the position of your company have radically changed since the partnership with the Standard Oil Company...
...Then the prosecuting attorney gave the accused a fragment of a letter. Scheinschneider gave a thoroughgoing character analysis of the writer. Then another lawyer told him the date and place of an occurrence. Scheinschneider told what had happened. Then he was given a watch. Scheinschneider identified its owner...
Largest property owner in Philadelphia is also...
Although the maxim (credited to Accursius, 1182-1260) was coined in a day when man was earthbound, it has survived to provide endless argument on the question of what constitutes trespass by aircraft. Today virtually all jurists agree that a property owner has control of the space above only to the extent that he can actually make use of it, or for protecting the rights which he enjoys on the surface.* Thereby hangs a variety of interpretations which threaten to become more confusing with the increase of airports and aircraft...