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Word: owner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ronald Lindsay, they sent 57-year-old Philip Henry Kerr, Marquess of Lothian, owner of 28,000 English and Scottish acres, onetime journalist, Wartime secretary to David Lloyd George. He is an ambitious man who long ago "arrived" in British affairs by hard work. Accused (he denies it) of being a member of the famed, talkative Cliveden Set and of having helped oust Anthony Eden, he favored appeasement until he lost belief in Adolf Hitler's humanity. Then he favored a British military alliance with Russia. Now he may confidently be counted in Britain's war-if-necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Off-Base | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Orleans, Ferdinand, 1,000-lb. Jersey bull, pushed halfway through a fence hole, devoured a 100-lb. sack of cornmeal, got stuck. To Ferdinand's rump,' Owner William Lashley, lacking a bee, applied the live terminals of an electric battery, shocked Ferdinand free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Beer | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...synthetic revolution of 1903 when the new Republic of Panama was set up (and instantly recognized by Roosevelt 1) after Colombia, the owner of the Isthmus, refused to grant the U. S. a canal concession. Said T. R.: "I took Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: After Balboa | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...owner: Post-Gazette Publisher Paul Block, once publisher of seven papers, now of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...pretty good price considering that T.E.P. was threatened with slow strangulation by the competition of Government-subsidized Tennessee Valley Authority power. Out of the sale price holders of T.E.P. bonds and preferred stock were paid off at par, about $8,000,000 was left for C. & S., owner of all but a few shares of the common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Appomattox Court House | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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