Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gimbel family is like an artichoke. Its stalk was Adam Gimbel who immigrated from Bavaria in 1840 and opened a store at Vincennes, Ind. He raised seven sons who huddled together in department store ownership, first at Milwaukee, later in Philadelphia, in Manhattan, and lastly Pittsburgh (TiME, Dec. 14, 1925). The sons raised their many sons, and kept them snugly in the family enterprises...
...give thanks for present blessings. Of this kind, however, is the information from Oxford that rules have been put into effect by the University restricting the under-graduate use of automobiles. No freshman is permitted to own a car; an upper classman must get a special license for ownership from the disciplinary authorities of the university. Trips to the English Wellesley are precluded by another regulation which restricts the rental of a car to one hour and the cruising radius of five miles...
Books were, in Perkins' own words the most lasting of all his hobbies. Perhaps his greatest interest was in the collection of books connected either through ownership or authorship with one man--Coleridge. During the winter of 1924-25 he had already given a rather large number of his books, annotated of written by the poet, to the library, writing at about the same time, "I much fear you will be disappointed in the quality of the Coleridge items, but shall be a very happy person indeed were any of this material to prove of the smallest help to Professor...
...Royal Dutch head, predicting, early disaster, then wanted to know which nation or financial body was going to be "stung" by giving the last credit to the Soviets. ". . . To think that after considering the above anybody would be foolish enough to undertake the working of these fields under temporary ownership ... is too silly for words...
...Valencia; how it had proved a failure; how, to save himself from bankruptcy, he had turned the newspaper over to his employes without informing them of the true state of affairs; how, after the enterprise had been put on its feet, Blasco Ibaņez had disavowed his gift, reclaimed ownership...