Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action of the public officials in repealing the fine and sentence of James Delacey, proprietor of the Dunster House Bookshop, brings the infamous case to a close. It is the only ending to an odious business and the officials deserve more to be praised for their intelligence than congratulated for any show of "clemency...
Author Eng Ying (Eddie) Gong, proprietor of an Americanized restaurant at No. 1 Pell Street (nucleus of Manhattan's Chinatown) observed, noted, took part in tong warfare, wrote an inside story of it. Along came Reporter Bruce Grant, who read the story, realized that it was an expose exciting and spectacular enough to appeal to underworld-minded readers, was the first authentic history of the tongs ever written, was a splendid scoop. He wrote Author Gong's manuscript into reportorial text. All Reporter Grant needed was a rewrite...
...Whalen went to Police Headquarters as usual to attend the daily "lineup" of suspected criminals before the detective force. Two police detectives, Frederick Opperman, 25, and John Foran, 34, reluctantly mounted the little stage. The charge against them was that they had tried to extort $25 from the proprietor of a small speakeasy on Staten Island...
...hope of relief for great personages offered in the reply of Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Sketch, London Evening News, etc., etc. "Speaking professionally," said he, "I do not know what the newspapers would do without the Duchess of York and Princess Elizabeth. There is not a newspaper in the country in which there is not a strict instruction that the closest watch be kept ... on them...
...Harlem, N. Y., Thomas Allen, 45, was eating in a coffee pot.* The waiter took his catsup away. Eater Allen went for the waiter with a pocket knife. John Christor, proprietor, shot angry Allen dead...