Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central principle in all true con [confidence] rackets is to show a sucker how he can make some money by dishonest methods and then beat him in his attempted dishonesty." Standard forms: helping the victim ("prospect") to find a pocketbook, whose grateful owner, another thief, persuades him to invest money of his own in a fake gambling or brokerage office; arranging with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares in smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeiting machines. Confidence men also practice such sidelines...
...Switzerland for edelweiss. He causes Miss Cheri to break her contract under the moral turpitude clause by getting her so drunk she slips under a table in the Biltmore. When the bank sells the studio over his head and fires him, he organizes studio employes to defy the new owner, throws Nassau out with a jujitsu hold, saves Cheri's last picture by having it recut to star a gorilla. Stand-in is the most human as well as the most biting comedy yet written about Hollywood. After its preview, violent protests were made by rival organizations. Twentieth Century...
...Howard grapples with the problem of war and peace, demonstrates the impotence of sober liberalism as pitted against drunken jingoism, but ends with a faint note of hope for the forces of temperance and sanity, a note which is scarcely justified by what has gone before. A great newspaper owner, a frank caterer to mob passions, is the chief antagonist; while two brothers, a manufacturer and a one-paper journalist, do battle for liberalism and pacifism, but draw their strength from a woman, their sister-in-law. There is something in the play of the old conflict of destruction versus...
Last week's Herald deal puts Miami's sharp newspaper competition completely under remote control. Ohio's ex-Governor James Middleton Cox owns the Miami News but lives in Dayton where he publishes the Dayton News; Tribune Owner Annenberg has his home in Philadelphia to be near his Inquirer...
...Angeles, members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union at the Beverly Knitting Mill went on strike for higher wages. Like several disgusted employers before him Owner L. G. Griffith explained: "All right. I'm through. You run it." Three strikers took him up. formed a new $25.000 corporation, hired onetime Owner Griffith as sales manager, signed a bargaining agreement with the union, reopened for work...