Word: owners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...income from properties averages about 30% of the upkeep. The 60% remainder is about evenly distributed between taxes and interest. About 10% of the whole income goes to various forms of insurance. Inevitably in about 3 years the owner has lost his equity. The reversion of real estate to the banks has made them fail and the politician senses his downfall. Thirty percent of our property is already in the hands of the State. The Mediterranean fly was an excuse to further pauperize the henchmen of the favored politician. We, unless soon relieved of their means of support, shall have...
Oliver Max Gardner, at 47, is North Carolina's youngest Governor. Cottonmill owner, lawyer, farmer, he plays a left-handed game of golf, is fondly called "Max" by most Tarheel voters. At North Carolina State College he was a famed football player. Twenty years in Democratic politics, grey-haired, handsome, easy-mannered, he was elected last year without turning Hoovercratic to please bitter little old Senator Simmons...
...wonder at. Having made her name with her hips, with increasing maturity Miss Gray now takes acting seriously, while Mr. Bennett, having begun with masterpieces, now writes pamphlets on health, testimonials for advertising and sentimental stories for the Saturday Evening Post. This Gray-Bennett piece tells how a cabaret owner tries to get rid of his star dancer to replace her with his Chinese kitchen maid. The rivalry of the two girls winds up with a dagger-fight between them in the rooms of Anna May Wong. Like most English pictures, the drama is crudely shaped and conventionally directed. Anna...
...Onetime owner of Western Newspaper Union was George A. Joslyn, who died in 1916. Since 1916 stock has been controlled by Mr. Joslyn's widow and other heirs. Last week, however, Western Newspaper Union exchanged its private for public 'ownership, issued $4,250,000 in gold debentures. The company earned...
Riviera is the title of the show-window display in the department store where Mr. Misch struts as floorwalker. A salesgirl, first devoted to Mr. Misch, leaves him to go with the store-owner to the real Riviera...