Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present the Carter course seems to have a monopoly in the new industry. Any small gasoline station proprietor or owner of a vacant lot could lay out a putting course with only a caddy's knowledge of the game. But Mr. Carter's advertisements warn: "Patent No. 1,559,520 controls and protects the construction, maintenance, sales and use of Putting Greens and Playing Surfaces of Cotton Seed Hulls or any comminuted flocculent vegetable material, either in a natural state or dyed to simulate grass, and with or without an admixture of binding substance...
...Reynolds of Long Beach, L. I., has been taken away from Walter Chrysler. . . . Money troubles." They cited the fact that no newspaper had since printed any suggestion that Mr. Chrysler's tower was slipping from his grasp. They promised a statement "qualifying the fact of Mr. Chrysler's owner-ship." But weeks slipped past and no statement came out, Mr. Chrysler apparently being too preoccupied with that which makes him rich to worry about his monument...
...rickety story-and-a-half farmhouse in which was born John Davison Rockefeller was moved piece by piece from its foundation in Tioga county, N. Y., to Coney Island, New York fun park. Last year Mrs. Sarah S. Dennen, the owner, announced she would move the structure to Coney Island in one piece, movers to be trained by highway authorities lest their bridges be damaged. In dismantling the house workmen found "a little homespun vest for a child of four or five years, tucked deeply away in the corner of a bedroom." Mrs. Dennen turned it over to the Metropolitan...
...birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer, the manager of a carburetor factory, a millionaire, a German shopkeeper, a certified public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive for his preposterous crimes, what these twelve men voted to do with him. Author Thayer has saved his case histories from being boring by his brisk narration, his breezy bits of salaciousness...
...police meanwhile progressed slowly in finding Lingle's killer. A grand jury indicted Frank Foster, arrested in Los Angeles as onetime owner of the "belly gun" with which Lingle was shot. The same day, detectives arrested one Jack Zuta, Moran-Aiello gangster, suspected instigator of the murder. Soon released, Zuta was being given "safe conduct" through the loop district in a detective lieutenant's car, when three men opened fire on him. A street car motorman was killed. While the detective fought it out with the assailants, Zuta fled, unhurt, to hide from police and gunmen alike...