Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Gitelman can be credited with another innovation. Those traffic offenders convicted by him who do not receive jail sentences (either week-end or continuous) are given fines, if the offender is the car owner or related to the owner who is insured, the Judge imposes a fine depending on circumstances. If the offender is not insured, Judge Gitelman imposes a fine of $75 (which allows enough leeway to cover public liability insurance for personal injury and property damage on any car) and gives the offender the choice of paying the fine, surrendering his driving license for 60 days...
...crops that Germany most needs. Declared General Goring: "The State will appoint a trustee to administer the affairs of a farmer who fails, after due warning, to produce needed crops. If necessary the State will take complete control of the land, rent it to another farmer and order the owner to cease farming. . . . Farm workers who attempt to leave the land will be treated as deserters...
...select and direct them all. Having completed the first, afraid of losing his appeal for U. S. audiences by becoming too thoroughly Americanized, Actor Gravet recently returned to Paris, where he maintains an army of 30,000 toy soldiers of which a few members always travel with their owner...
...March 3, 1839 a Parisian peepshow known as a Diorama, in which panoramic tableaux were exhibited, burned down. In it gapers could view Edinburgh by moonlight, the Swiss Alps, St. Peter's in Rome and other romantic views set up and painted by its owner, M. Louis Daguerre. For several years Scenepainter Daguerre had been experimenting with photography, had invented a secret process for taking pictures on sensitized copper plates. Loss of the Diorama was the loss of Daguerre's income. He accepted an annuity of 4,000 francs ($800) from the French Government for the secret...
...streaked and spattered with muck from head to foot. Sweat trickled down his nose and cheeks, dripped from his chin. As he collapsed into a chair while an attendant pulled off the dusty boots, Clyde Beatty, the most celebrated trainer of lions and tigers in the world and part owner of the newest and most extraordinary U. S. circus, honestly sighed: "It's good to sit down...