Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more "typical" Frenchman was ever born. Owner of a small estate and vineyard in Touraine, son of a mediocre politician who once was Vice-President of the Senate, onetime mayor of Tours, and thrice holder for brief periods of the Ministry of Interior, once of the Ministry of Justice, it may be said of M. Chautemps that nothing can be said of him which would not apply as well to a score of other Deputies. His rise to leadership of the Radical Socialists resulted primarily from the fall of Edouard Daladier, after the latter's ignominious failure to form...
...Wynn is the featured jester: he who is plump and lisping, who wears horn glasses and exhibits inventions. This year he has fashioned a nightdress guaranteed not to become uncomfortably entwined about the body ? it is truncated under the arms. As a Coney Island shop-owner who falls asleep and dreams of Fairyland, he wanders into enchanted woods. "I love the woods," he continually explains. There he is troubled by large and grotesque faces, by a contortionistic frog. He tells a story of a carrier pigeon whose wings were injured but who still managed to reach his destination...
...Model Governor" Yen Hsi-Shan, absolute ruler of Shansi Province and 70 million Chinamen, was hobnobbing last week in "mysterious seclusion" with a potent neighbor, Marshal Feng Yu-Hsiang (owner of the world's largest private army - 150,000) who is still smarting under the recent discipline of the Nationalist Government (TIME, June 3). Telegrams from Governor Yen last week demanding that Chiang resign and "let China fight it out" were bluntly refused...
Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager & half owner of the Philadelphia American League baseball team ("Athletics"), was awarded the $10,000 Edward William Bok Prize for having done most for Philadelphia last year...
...Bernard. Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime brewer, owner of the Yankee Baseball team, entered his Hercuveen Satellite but was beaten by Pythagora Junior of Berncrest Kennels...