Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change his name to Stewart Granger because of a well-known American in the same trade. Now he would have to make the change as a matter of law. In fact, the names in question need not even be exactly the same. Similarity will suffice. Even so, the owner of the Chevron gas station on West Third Street in Los Angeles is not worried. Though he displays his name on a huge sign, Linden Johnson figures that the other fellow is too busy...
Johnson's bill would outlaw discrimination on either racial or religious grounds in the "purchase, rental, lease, financing, use and occupancy" of all housing. Violation would not be a criminal offense, but victims of discrimination could seek a court order forcing the owner to rent or sell-and collect up to $500 from him "for humiliation and mental pain...
...trading in. How can he determine whether he is getting a good trade-in price? It makes little, if any, difference if the trade-in car has only a few thousand miles registered on the odometer, whether it has good tires, or whether it has had only one owner...
...example of a freehanded spender with class, Beebe gives an account of Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner's paying Paderewski $3,000 to play at teatime for an elderly friend and herself on condition that he remain concealed behind a screen. Or James Gordon Bennett, owner of the New York Herald, who bought a restaurant in Monte Carlo one day because he could not get a seat by the window, cleared the restaurant of customers, lunched at leisure and then gave a waiter the deed to the place...
...possibility of tension between the different groups arose when Joseph Simeone, the restauran't owner, spoke out strongly against "demonstrators." If we have so-called demonstrators take over, we're going to accomplish nothing," he declared...