Word: owner
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Freshman, a History and Government concentrator, recently received national attention for his thesis on the executive clemency of Georgia factory owner Leo Frank. Frank was convicted in 1913 of murdering a 13-year-old girl. Last month, Freshman's thesis helped gain a posthumous pardon for Frank...
...nameplate directory at the base of the building recently had the label for apartment 209 changed from "Ferranti-Dege" to "A. C. Ferranti," the name of the store's owner. Also, "J. August" was changed to "D. Baron," according to residents...
From now on, customers at 7-Eleven stores across the U.S. will have to buy Tabasco sauce if they want their eyes to pop. Last week Southland Corp., owner of the convenience chain, announced that it would no longer carry Playboy, Penthouse and Forum magazines, the three adult publications that now appear in its 4,500 7-Eleven stores. Southland additionally urged its 3,600 franchisees to follow suit. Southland President Jere Thompson said the action was in response to recent hearings conducted by the federal Commission on Pornography. Said Thompson: "The testimony indicates a growing public awareness...
...major boost to the effort to trace ownership through the layers of dummy companies. Explaining a typical deal, Joseph Bernstein told how he helped create a holding company in the Netherlands Antilles that was itself held by three firms in Panama, the stock of which had no identified owner...
...Harvard's] being cute and pretending that Mr. Ferranti lives there. That's ridiculous," one tenant said last night, referring to the owner of the Ferranti-Dege camera shop...