Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itinerant carnival (James Dunn, Lillian Roth, Cliff Edwards, June Knight) straggle by hook or crook into the cast of a show being produced by an impressionable young socialite (Charles "Buddy" Rogers). After amicable bickerings between Dunn & Roth and Rogers & Knight, and after the efforts of a villainous café proprietor to commit the cardinal sin of preventing the show from going on, the first night is a huge success. A handsome and unusually rowdy adaptation of the musicomedy that played in Manhattan last winter, Take a Chance repeats most of the sketches that were successful on the stage. Good...
Week before, Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson had "cracked down" on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, a market owner and beautician of New Rochelle, N. Y., a Lowell, Mass, restaurateur and a Chelsea, Mass, dry cleaner. For violating wage and working time agreements, they were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia to their local postmasters. Under the President's order, General Johnson was now empowered to jail and fine such offenders, to "prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to . . . carry out the purposes and intent . . . of this order." General Johnson's first prescription emphasized that...
...holiday would be observed the last Thursday in November. His own Thanksgiving bird was picked for him at the Chicago poultry show: a bronze, 40-lb. gobbler judged best turkey at the exhibition. Name: NRA Blue Eagle. ¶ On a brown paper bag, Steve Vasilakos, for 28 years proprietor of the popcorn stand in front of the White House, scribbled a statement for the Press: "Was certainly a great pleasure for me to wait on a new customer today at noon. The First Lady of the Land stored by my stand and purchased a bag of fresh roasted popcorn...
...Cecil W. ("Teddy") Kenyon of Waban, Mass. Pretty, blonde wife of a former transport pilot, Mrs. Kenyon received $5,000 and the title of champion airwoman. Not so good as Mrs. Kenyon at spot landings, but unsurpassed at aerobatics was an engaging young man named Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern. In his fast biplane with a picture of Felix the Cat painted on the side, Pilot Zelcer scored 590 points out of a possible 600 at stunting, won the men's title...
...famed model institution. A good worker, 14-year-old Peter Christopolus was rewarded for his "model behavior" this summer by getting his picture printed in the Boys' Home magazine, in overalls like the other orphans. The picture came to the attention of one Jean Strengs, French-born proprietor of a Paterson, N. J. dye works. Dyer Strengs was struck by Peter Christopolus' resemblance to his own son, who had been drowned at 17 a year before. He decided to adopt Peter, arranged for a six-week trial after which he might educate him, train...