Word: owners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Downs track looked like a brown and olive swamp. The favorite flower of the East was Blue Larkspur, but Man O' War's gelded son Clyde Van Dusen won the race. The other Clyde Van Dusen, his trainer, nearly wept when he saw him come in. His owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them...
...police parade so Jimmy stayed at home. Walter J. Salmon, whose Dr. Freeland won the Preakness, was there and so was Publisher Paul Block, who arrived in a private car. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer went in an airplane and was greeted by Brother-Publisher Ralph Pulitzer. "Bath House" John Coughlin, owner of Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained out of his trousers. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt...
McLean v. The Record. Rich and social is Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, famed as owner of the Hope diamond, and as a friend of the late President Warren Gamaliel Harding (TIME, March 10, 1924). Last week he sued the Philadelphia Record, a Democratic daily, for one million dollars damages on account of libel which Plaintiff McLean described in his declaration as "false, wicked, malicious, scandalous and defamatory." This he did because, said he, the Philadelphia Record did wickedly contrive and falsely and maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause...
...British radio programs and that British citizens could readily pick up U. S. broadcasts. He predicted that radio Would become a great national force, might even lead to the establishment of an international language. British and French radio at present, however, he described as "formative." The British radio owner, for instance, has no loud speaker, no electric sets, and no choice of programs-a standard program being furnished by the government. Forward-looking Mr. Aylesworth, however, predicted an eighty million audience for his radio chain and visioned President Hoover and King George giving a joint radio address to English-speaking...
...Federal Trade Commission also planned to call two more publishers, two more paper tycoons. The publishers are: Frank Ernest Gannett, owner of 17 chain-papers, who distinguished himself a fortnight ago, not by announcing that International Paper & Power Co. had bought stock in four of his papers, but by announcing that he had bought back such stock from I. P. & P. (TIME, May 13): and Samuel Emory Thomason, co-owner of Bryan-Thomason Newspaper Publishers, Inc. (Chicago Journal, Greensboro, N. C., Record, Tampa, Fla., Tribune) in which are one million Graustein dollars...