Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Joseph George Strecker, 51, born in Galicia, Hot Springs, Ark. lunchroom proprietor and onetime U. S. Communist; and Mrs. Emma Howard, 41, Hot Springs widow; in Hot Springs. Last April Strecker's appeal from a deportation order went to the U. S. Supreme Court, which ruled that past membership in the Communist Party is insufficient grounds on which to deport an alien...
Having put out one issue of a publication called "Debutante Diary," Harold A. Wolff '29, proprietor of Wolff's Tutoring School, announces that "because of press of business" he will not publish again in the near future...
...Russia's grab last week did not look like Poland's small-boy attempt to run off with a stick of candy while the big boys were killing the proprietor. It looked more like a step in a program of world redistribution whose outlines were consciously obscured, whose possibilities were unknown, perhaps even to the partners in the enterprise. Nothing suggested that Russia faced a fate like Poland's, the last country to share a grab with Germany, except the haunting recollection of Russia's new friends coming in her direction, armed to the teeth...
Last week World War II found War Illustrated back on the streets of London after a lapse of 20 years. Publisher was William Ewert Berry, now Lord Camrose, proprietor of a mammoth chain of newspapers (including the Daily Telegraph), and one of Britain's fabulous press peers.† Its editor was 68-year-old Sir John Hammerton (knighted in 1932), greyhaired but husky as ever...
...undertakers (who prefer to be called "morticians," call their places of business funeral "parlors" or "homes") have long offered complete funerals for a flat fee. Last week in San Francisco, one Patricia Morgan, onetime Manhattan model and proprietor of a "charm" school, offered weddings similarly packaged. Her "Wedding Home" was aimed at business girls who, without church or family background, "have the same yearning as society belles to wear a bridal veil and are just as much entitled to." Miss Morgan priced her nuptials on a sliding scale, beginning with a curt ceremony in street clothes...