Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Decency started, there was generally supposed to be white slavery, opium and hatchet-work in Chinatown. San Francisco, bringing the earthquake up to date, makes it plain that its real cause lay in the fact that Clark Gable did not say his prayers at night. Gable is Blackie Norton, owner of a notorious café, and Miss MacDonald is his No. 1 chanteuse. Father Tim (Spencer Tracy) struggles to make a convert out of Blackie while Mr. Burley (Jack Holt) struggles to make an opera singer out of the chanteuse, so that she will be worthy of his manor...
Last week before Justice Bonynge came the case of Percy C. Reed, owner of the Nassau Kennel Club, operator of dog races at the Mineola fairgrounds. Year ago Mr. Reed was accused of gambling, but the case was dismissed for want of evidence. Mr. Reed now appealed to Justice Bonynge for a declaratory judgment approving his business. Justice Bonynge wrote a decision which made brisk reading. Excerpts: "The plaintiff operates under an ingeniously devised scheme, deliberately contrived to avoid the pitfalls of the Penal Law. In a word, he sells purchase options upon each dog in a race...
...love. She had rushed off to Norway to rest, rushed back to Holinge pursued by debts and scandals. Talented, bitter, hysterical, she stayed in her room, tormented herself and the family, thought of suicide. The Snyders did not own Holinge, which complicated Bengt's problem. Its owner was a distant relative, an eccentric named Charles-Henri de Grévy, who had fled Sweden 20 years before as a result of shady stock manipulation. So the first shock to ambitious Bengt's resolution came when he learned that his mother had been unlawfully selling...
...dozen individual dramas reached their climaxes word came to Holinge that the old owner, de Grévy, was returning to claim his own. And as a last turn of the screw Bengt learned that he was de Grévy's son. The wastrels, thieves, slanderers huddled together on the old farm on a stormy Easter to await the old man's vengeance, found his homecoming different from anything they could have anticipated...
...name of the biggest U. S. clockmaker has never appeared on the face of a U. S. clock-General Time Instruments, Inc. Last week for the first time this name appeared on the New York Stock Exchange. As unfamiliar to the average investor as to the average clock owner, GTI is known by its two chief subsidiaries, Western Clock Co. ("Big Ben") and Seth Thomas Clock Co. of Thomaston, Conn. These two old family enterprises were put together in 1930 to form the company which now accounts for one-third of the entire U. S. clock business. Instead of celebrating...