Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attention has been called to a planned attempt, led by a certain notorious newspaper owner, to make it appear that the President passively accepts the support of alien organizations hostile to the American form of government...
...every Death dollar which they divide undertakers get 90?, cemetery owners 10?. Cemetery Owner J. M. Harbertson of Ogden, Utah last week showed his colleagues how to increase their share of Death's dollar by going into the mortuary business himself. Because he saves double handling of the corpse and does not increase his overhead he has found that he can generally underbid local funeral parlors...
...Halloween, 1926, mischievous Charles Vance Millar, rich, unmarried Canadian lawyer, silver mine owner and race track gambler, died in Toronto. When his will was examined it was found that he had left $500,000 to that Toronto mother who bore the most children within the next decade. To be counted, the offspring might be born alive or dead, legitimate or illegitimate. With Oct. 31 just six weeks away, the Toronto baby derby last week entered the home stretch. Five fecund women were running almost neck & neck. Of these, three would be out of the money if anyone bettered their record...
Continuing its policy of making available to consistent exercisers a reduction in rate for the use of the University's athletic facilities, the Harvard Athletic Association is again offering this year for $10 a Participation Ticket, which entitles the owner to use of athletic equipment for stated periods without payment of a special fee for each...
...common stockholders' committee of Philadelphia's great Baldwin Locomotive Works Showman Brady sent a letter on behalf of "William A. Brady & Brady Enterprises," refusing assent to the re-organization plan for which, since last spring, Baldwin has been soliciting stockholders' approval. Owner of 2,300 shares of common (currently worth $3.50 a share), Oldster Brady announced that his lawyers would ask the Philadelphia District Court for a rehearing on the plan, that if nobody else would fight it he would alone. Brady's objections to Baldwin's plan were two: 1) it would "virtually wipe...