Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of a Polish-language newspaper, accused of collaborating with an Endicott Johnson foreman. Another was a Scranton, Pa. church organist, behind whose organ $1,250 of the bogus bills were discovered. Another was Robert Reidt Jr., son of a Long Island tea shop proprietor who frightened his neighbors in 1925 by proclaiming the end of the world was at hand...
Jesse Royce Landis, the leading lady in "The Dark Tower," which is playing at the Hollis Theatre, is to have tea this afternoon with the Dramatic Club in the room of Thomas Ratcliffe '35, who is to take the part of the drapery shop proprietor in the club's forthcoming production, "A Bride For The Unicorn...
...king's representative like Donal Buckley. An ardent Republican and oldtime Sinn Fciner, he was nominated for the governor generalship by his good friend Eamon de Valera in the sneaking hope that Britain would make an issue of the matter by objecting. Britain did not. Once the proprietor of a grocery store, bicycle shop and inn, Donal Buckley was interned in Britain during the War after fighting bravely in the defense of the Postoffice during Dublin's Easter rebellion in 1916. He speaks nothing but Gaelic whenever possible, refuses to live in the Viceregal Lodge in Phoenix Park...
...dish of hasenpfeffer, Chef Meringer's specialty.* After he had eaten three plates of it, he sent for the cook, gave him the sweepstakes ticket for a reward. Chef Meringer said he planned to send his son William to college. In Baltimore, reporters discovered a grocery store proprietor named David Dusell who had won $3,400 and explained why he was not surprised at his good fortune: "Two years ago I won $5,700 at Bowie on a parlay ticket and in 1905 I won the same amount." In Marblehead, Mass. William H. Sweet, 61-year-old fisherman...
Western Pacific has not earned its fixed charges for three years. Given a year's time, however, Proprietor James thinks he can pull it through alive. The 200-mile link he built in California to connect Western Pacific with Great Northern, completed in 1931, has not yet revealed its full traffic possibilities. The Dotsero cutoff west of Denver, to be finished this year, is expected to direct transcontinental traffic to the Denver & Rio Grande-Western Pacific route (TIME...