Word: owners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herald at $18 a week on a hunch. Soon after that The Herald, in new hands, was shy an editor. Vandenberg hung up his hat in the editor's office, brushed his cigar ashes in the editor's tray and announced himself as the new boss. The owner let him stay as a penalty for his impertinence; but in about three jerks of a lamb's tail he had the weakling Herald on a money-making basis...
Rockwell Kent, famed black and white artist, boarded a 33-ft. sailing cutter at Baddeck, Nova Scotia, last week. He was Greenland-bound, accompanied by Lucian Gary Jr., the writer's son, and Arthur S. Allen Jr., son of the cutter's owner...
Died. Harry Herbert Frazee, 48, of Manhattan, onetime prizefight promoter, onetime (1915-23) owner of Boston Red Sox, theatrical-producer (A Pair of Sixes, Nothing but the Truth, No No Nanette); in Manhattan...
...king's doctors and all the king's nurses who had attended during his illness received recognition in the birthday honors list. Elevated to peerages were onetime First Lord of the Admiralty William C. Bridgeman, Col. Sir Edward A. Brotherton, Sir Robert Sanders, Sir William Tyrell, Newspaper Owner Sir William Ewert Berry. The Order of Merit was conferred upon Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, Novelist-Dramatist John Galsworthy. An earldom was granted to Viscount Inch-cape of Strathnaver (shipping...
...dealer on the curb market, retired from the brokerage business (1919) at 40, bought, and later sold, a chain of California hotels. His Connecticut estate, Freestone Castle, is patterned upon English models; he has also a Colonial home in Altadena, Cal. He is the owner of the Sialia, a yacht formerly in the possession of Henry Ford. The Sialia is the fourth largest privately owned yacht in the world...