Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only major-league baseball team that has never won a pennant. Last year at home they drew only 92,000 spectators all season, not many more than the New York Yankees draw on one good day. The St. Louis Browns have been for sale ever since their owner, Philip De Catesby Ball, died three years ago, but not until last week was baseball rocked by the news that the sale of the Browns had finally been consummated. Buyer was a syndicate of St. Louis sportsmen headed by President Donald Lee Barnes of American Investment Co. of Illinois and Public Loan...
...summer of 1935 a Pontiac, Mich. factory mechanic named Hildred Gumarsol drove his trailer to Orchard Lake, removed the wheels, jacked it onto blocks, built a front porch, settled down for the summer. Several other trailers followed suit, paying the owner of the land the usual small parking fee. Most of them drove away at summer's end, but Gumarsol left his trailer there all winter, returned last summer to live in it again. Last month, angry owners of nearby real estate brought suit, charging that he was violating a village ordinance by living in a dwelling with less...
...backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas. Last September some 400 of its engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors walked out on strike. Demanding restoration of a wage agreement abrogated in 1933, they wanted the company to bargain jointly with their five union brotherhoods. President Peter Couch, the owner's brother, once an L. & A. fireman himself, insisted on dealing with them separately. He hired strikebreakers to keep in operation the railroad's service between Dallas, Tex., Hope, Ark. and New Orleans...
...rider's hands as of the horse's mouth. Major Tuttle is an expert violinist. Olympic is now valued at $15,000. He cost $1. Like Vast and Si Murray, who cost $100 each, he is a thoroughbred race horse considered valueless by his former owner because he could not, or was too clever to, run fast...
Another Republican Senator who saved his skin was Senator George Norris of Nebraska, but not as a Republican. For running as an Independent with New Deal support he beat both the regular Republican candidate, Robert G. Simmons and the unorthodox possessor of the Democratic nomination, the loud filling-station owner, Terry Carpenter, who refused to withdraw for the benefit of the New Deal's friend...