Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills, Ltd. (controlled by Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Lord Rothermere; brother of late great Lord Northcliffe; owner of London Daily Mail, London Evening News, Sunday Dispatch, Northcliffe Newspapers, Ltd.), consolidated with Canada Power & Paper Corp. (controlled by Sir Herbert Samuel Holt and James Henry Gundy who recently [TIME, June 2] consolidated Canadian steel and coal properties). The combined companies, 97% British and Canadian controlled, will have daily newsprint capacity of 2,500 tons, largest in British Empire...
...shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor against what Englishmen call brandy, Frenchmen eau-de-vie, Swedes Aquavit. Five years before the War, Munktorp's literary blacksmith took the road to greatness, accepted a call to Eskilstuna, where the owner of the Eskilstunakurirers made him Editor...
...multitude who enjoy detective stories and mystery plays in which ghastly white arms slide out of hidden panels, murdered bodies mysteriously disappear to the embarrassment of the burly and thwarted constabulary, Spook House provides staple entertainment. Its scene is laid in a mansion in Westchester County, N. Y., whose owner has been mysteriously slain and whose housekeeper creeps about presaging dire events. In addition to its standard equipment of revolvers, bowie knives and falling chandeliers, Spook House also contains one funny Irish policeman, one extremely competent and clever gunman, one beauteous female operative of the Department of Justice...
Last week Editor-elect Arthur H. Samuels journeyed to California to hear Publisher William Randolph Hearst's wishes for Smart Set's next transformation. Publisher Hearst has bought back Smart Set after a two-year interim in which James R. Quirk, owner of successful Photoplay, failed to popularize it as "the young women's magazine." From 1924 to 1928 Mr. Hearst put Smart Set through its "confession" phase. Now he thinks it might be made into a sophisticated smart-chart for women in and about Manhattan...
...Manhattan, Jack Abrahams, owner of Frances Negligee Corp., was absorbed in noting how his new underwear looked on models. His stockgirl, Lillian Wasserman, tried to tell him something. He waved her away. When she finally got his attention, gone were the gunmen who had been robbing his cashier...