Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showing outranks either of the very ordinary feature pictures. The Ace card in Mr. Rice's latest hand, with Ted Husing dealing, is a pictorial record of one of the freakest of animal companionships, namely that of six otters, two dogs, and a raccoon. With cameramen lurking everywhere, their owner hunts, fishes, and plays with them for a very entertaining quarter-hour. This not one of Grantland Rice's run-of-the-mine features. His men went out of their way to get these pictures, and the result was undoubtedly worth the trouble...
...that the leaders of the union had, by violence aided a monopoly of electrical contracting which cost New York citizens $10,000,000 per year. Baking. Two days later Mr. Dewey closed in, after more than a year of sleuthing, on a baking racket. He arrested a lawyer, the owner of one of the city's largest cake & pastry bakeries, and the president and business agent of a local of A. F. of L.'s International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers, whose President Daniel J. Tobin was chairman of the Democratic Labor Committee in last year...
Sometimes, as was indicated in the arrest of the bakery owner last fortnight, businessmen who want to keep competition down and prices up in spite of anti-trust laws organize it themselves, take racketeers as partners. Last week, well aware of the significance of his mission, Dewey Assistant Herlands set out to give the nation its first complete courtroom exposition of the way such a racketeering outfit works. Restaurants, On trial before Justice McCook were three officials of the "Metropolitan Restaurant & Cafeteria Associa- tion," three of a local of A. F. of L.'s Hotel & Restaurant Employes International Alliance...
...South Chester Terminal & Warehousing Co., director of a national bank, two trust companies, a sugar refinery, an abrasive wheel factory. Most of his fortune he made from the tube company, which manufactures oil well casings and pipelines. He took over its management in 1901, is now sole owner. Dr. Cook's cluster of green-&-white observatory buildings contain equipment worth $100,000, represent a total investment of $200,000. Last summer, at a cost of some $9,000, he acquired the world's biggest star camera, weighing more than two tons. It has a 61-in. lens, takes...
...violinist to attend to a rich client. Because of the delay the fiddler loses the use of his playing arm. Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent) threatens to testify against Dr. Ludlow, losing thereby his job and his fiancee, Catherine Stanwood (Ruth Cole-man), daughter of a hospital owner. Trent transfers his interest to Ruth Hanlon (Helen Burgess), a nurse who expressed unethical annoyance when surgeons refused to operate upon a dying patient although the doctor on the case was an hour late. When an infantile paralysis epidemic breaks out, Trent retracts his testimony against Ludlow so as to continue...