Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Racing, headed by a former State Senator named Francis J. Kiernan, began hectoring Narragansett. Last month a suitable incident was provided when State Racing Steward James Doorley attempted to enforce a minor Division ruling concerning the posting of winning horses on the track's electric board. Hot-tempered Owner O'Haca not only defied the order but gave Doorley a bawling out. Thereupon the Racing Division, charging that Steward Doorley had been "intimidated," amazingly ordered the Narragansett Association, in which Mr. O'Hara is a majority stockholder, to oust Mr. O'Hara from...
...Nation. Each sells for 15?, each is published in Manhattan. Outsiders are likely to credit the Nation with having a little more wallop than the New Republic, the New Republic with having a little finer literary quality than the Nation. Politically they are not far apart. According to Editor-Owner Freda Kirchwey, the Nation "has followed a left-liberal policy all the way through, and it has shifted somewhat further to the left as times have changed." The New Republic, says Editor Bruce Bliven, is "working along every front to do away with repression, hunger, insecurity, injustice of all kinds...
...usual for a lawyer to appear at such hearings, but last week Elliott popped up in Washington in his wife's behalf before F.C.C. Examiner George Hill. Since the transfer of the station from R. S. Bishop, its present owner, was unopposed, the hearing lasted but a couple of hours. Radioman Roosevelt testified that the purchase price was $57,000, $12,500 of which had been placed in escrow, the rest payable when the F.C.C. makes its decision; that KFJZ was being bought by his wife, but that under Texas law husband and wife share jointly in estate...
...stories is the late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who is reputed to have wagered that sum on the outcome of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window. By last week it appeared that such stories may soon have a new hero in the person of Owner Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh (pro football) Pirates...
...take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher knife deal." Within a year J. Warren Bowman himself was a topnotch gum salesman, exponent of the "Indian blanket deal" (one blanket with every 24 boxes) and part owner of a plant in Lansing, Mich., which turned out a 1? gum called "Ju-Ce-Kiss." In 1927 he started his own plant in Philadelphia, in 1929 produced Blony...