Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almanac's first 54 years its proprietor was Robert Bailey Thomas, a Massachusetts stationer. For its last five, it has belonged to 45-year-old Robb Sagen-dorph, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Harvardman ('22) who lives rustically at Dublin, N.H. During the war, while he worked for the Office of Censorship, he kept his hardy perennial going by working on it nights and Sundays. It was worth his while: the 1946 print order is for 450,000 copies, almost double its previous printing...
...Peiping restaurant one day this week the proprietor, a serene, middle-aged Chinese named Mr. Chang, sat down at our table and talked of China's need and longing for peace after its years of war. Then he said: "I think we will have civil war. I think it is God's opinion...
...last week the Navy traced a case of venereal disease to Lucy's establishment. Despite her protests, her claim that she had never been anything but a proprietor, Oxnard's Dr. Hilary R. Mangan insisted on examining Lucy as well as her girls. A few minutes later the doctor had news the like of which Oxnard had not heard since the San Francisco earthquake...
...Jennings, onetime "redheaded terror of the Southwest," now 82-year-old proprietor of a one-acre chicken ranch, went to court in Los Angeles to sue for defamation of character ($100,000 worth). On the Lone Ranger radio program, he had not only been pictured as a common burglar and been suggested as responsible for turning a boy into a criminal, he complained, but "they had this Lone Ranger shootin' a gun out of my hand-and me an expert!" The onetime cattle-rustler, train-robber, killer (some dozen men by his own count), jailbird† (pardoned by President...
...Proprietor Eddie Rickenbacker announced that his Indianapolis speedway would resume auto racing next Memorial Day, predicted a new wrinkle: jet cars...