Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week he was named by the Federal Grand Jury as one of the wily five Dink Stovers. As co-owner of both the Roosevelt and Bienville hotels, president of the Board of Docks (main employment centre of New Orleans), commissioner of police and fire, president of the Port of New Orleans, and most important, as one of the triumvirate (with Leche and dark, toughly shrewd Mayor Robert Maestri of New Orleans) which took control of the racy Long machine when the Kingfish died, Weiss was apparently beyond reach. He had won a victory over the Government in 1936 when...
...year) from its management firm (Ebasco Services, Inc.), which began servicing the system's operating units at cost. Next, Groesbeck pulled out of the TVA fight, selling four operating companies to Government competitors, leaving Willkie (of whose Commonwealth & Southern system Bond& Share is a 5% owner) to shift for himself, taking a loss of $2,433,209 on the deal. Finally, Groesbeck submitted to SEChairman Douglas a scheme for integrating his multi-regioned system which sprawls across 33 States, embraces 119 companies, and looks as hard to hook into one chain as the Appalachians and the Rockies...
...daring poems in the tradition of her good friend Walt Whitman. Henry George, tiny, tenacious, hopeful ex-sailor-prospector-typesetter and future author of Progress and Poverty, wrote on spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past a dark secret because she was the niece of Mormon...
...four morning and four afternoon newspapers published in Manhattan all but two are conservative: the morning, tabloid Daily News and the evening Post. Last week, after six up-and-down years under Philadelphia Publisher J. David Stern (TIME, June 26), the Post got a new owner: the American Labor Party's City Councilman George Backer, whose liberalism is more profound than J. David Stern's and whose financial resources are greater. Young (36) Publisher Backer's first acts were to pay back, with interest, the 10% of their salaries the Post's staff members had been...
...miles away.* Near Philadelphia he alighted briefly to take on 55 gallons (which, he later explained, was to carry him beyond gravitational pull, whence he could glide the rest of the way). He took off again, headed north over a fog-blanketed Atlantic. By the time Owner Walz had raised the alarm for his $2,600, uninsured monoplane, Cheston Lee Eshleman was skittering hither & yon, munching chocolate, trying to find a hole...