Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beating up C. I. O. coalyard owner-drivers, three A. F. of L. teamsters went to trial in Seattle last week. This routine court item was news in Seattle and all along the Pacific Coast. Reason: They were Dave Beck's teamsters...
When, in 1930, Death came to John Thompson Dorrance, president and 94% owner of Campbell Soup Co., he left an estate valued at approximately $115,000.000. After long legal battles, two State inheritance taxes as well as a Federal tax were levied on the Dorrance kitty. Pennsylvania got $14,500,000; New Jersey another whopping $15,500,000. Last week, when the estate's value was finally approved by New Jersey's Orphans' Court, the Dorrance heirs (Widow Ethel and five children) found that, despite death. Depression and taxes, their fortune was bigger than ever before...
...diligent students of baseball knew that Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, multimillionaire Cub owner whose family had sunk millions in the club, was not satisfied. Owner Wrigley wanted his team in first place. He wanted the Cubs as animated as the pixies that perform on his famed Broadway electric sign. To discover the reason for their failure to be so, he had hired a University of Illinois professor to psychoanalyze the team. After studying the professor's findings, P. K. Wrigley, Andover-bred, decided last week that a new spark plug was needed...
...Washington Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean announced that Labor Leader John L. Lewis would be invited to her daughter Evalyn's Newport debut party, if & when she has one. Said the owner of the famed $300,000 Hope Diamond: "I am devoted to Mr. Lewis. Years ago father taught me to be sympathetic to labor. If the rich don't recognize labor they'll bring their house of cards down upon their ears...
...miles to Cocos Island, off the Costa Rican coast, where legend says pirates of the Spanish Main used to bury Inca gold. Into the pattern of his dream fitted the snug white 52-foot ketch Tira, which most of the time rode baresticked at her mooring because her owner, well-to-do Lew Foote, a busy Santa Cruz merchant, had little time for long cruises...