Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From: Stephen Abbot, Attorney at Law (not practicing), farm owner and manager; farms located in central Illinois and northeast Utah...
...built up the rivalry of the two Man o' Warriors (who had never met on the turf) to such a point that even folk whose only acquaintance with a horse was a nod at the morning milkman's were arguing over The Admiral and The Biscuit. Owner Samuel Riddle (who once refused $250,000 for The Admiral) and Owner Charles S. Howard (who bought The Biscuit from the late Ogden Mills for $7,500 two weeks after he was unclaimed for $6,000) finally agreed to a special race on Memorial Day at Belmont Park...
Ballyhooed as "the race of the century," the magnificent bubble burst a few days before the scheduled rendezvous when Owner Howard scratched The Biscuit because of a weak knee. Disgruntled racing fans felt cheated, muttered unpleasant words about Owner Howard's weak knees. When a subsequent attempt to get the two horses on the same track at the same time failed at the last moment, popular interest subsided...
...material: the first half of Morton Thompson's front page column in the Hollywood Citizen-News. The agency: Owner-Editor Harlan Guyant Palmer. Reason: It was so complimentary to virtuous Judge Palmer it brought "unexplainable tears" to his eyes. During a bitter Guild strike five months ago the Citizen-News printed an entire column by Thompson describing "the despicable traits" of Editor Palmer...
Married. Albert Davis Lasker, 58, principal owner and former president of the Lord & Thomas advertising agency, co-founder of the University of Chicago's Lasker Foundation for Medical Research; and Doris Kenyon Sills Hopkins, 41, onetime cinemactress (Monsieur Beaucaire), concert singer, widow of the late Cinemactor Milton Sills; he for the second, she for the third time; in Manhattan. Fortnight before, Adman Lasker had been proposed as head of a committee to regulate Hollywood Producers' conduct (TIME...