Word: proprietor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French posters. More cautiously Administrator Alberge continued his investigations. Dramatically he announced the solution. It was not the posters but the paste with which they were posted that attracted the goats. The Spanish paste was bitter, unpalatable. The French paste smelt and tasted of honey. The French cinema proprietor added a few drops of oil of bitter almonds to his paste...
...that the circus business is an industry, subject to profits and losses, to fat seasons and lean, and subject also to mergers, combinations, monopolization. It was the monopolistic aspect of the circus which last week attracted attention. For, through buying out American Circus Corp., John Ringling, large, two-chinned proprietor of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus became owner of every U. S. circus of any considerable size. American Circus Corp. was the management company for Sells-Floto, John Robinson, Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sparks and Al G. Barnes circuses. In absorbing American Circus Corp.. Mr. Ringling in one all-embracing...
Boss Tom Pendergast is a character. Chief proprietor of the "Ready-Mixed Concrete Co.," he has provided and hauled much of Kansas City's north end, not to mention providing most of the politics of the city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have...
Engaged. Cinemactress Clara ("It") Bow, spinster, to Harry Richman, singing Manhattan night club proprietor...
...tabloid newspaper, a new color scheme, appeared in the hands of Detroit newsboys last fortnight. It was called the Detroit Daily Illustrated (7 p. m. to 9 a. m. edition). The color scheme: white, then green, then pink. Its proprietor is Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of two other gum-chewers' sheetlets, New York's Graphic, Philadelphia's Daily News. This is the second new Macfadden publication venture within the last month. His other one: New York Investment News (TIME. April...