Word: partner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charge, she knew, had been Secretary of War of the U. S. way back in the days of President William McKinley. In fact the gentleman is so venerable that today the new U.S. Secretary of State?Henry Lewis Stimson?is a man who used to be a junior partner in the oldster's law firm. Therefore last week Nurse Emily Stewart felt a great sense of responsibility as she tended Elihu Root...
...David Buick (then 46) was a partner in the Detroit plumbing concern of Buick & Sherwood. At that time, Henry Ford was a machinist. R. E. Olds was making his first experiments with the Oldsmobile. Novel was the theory that a gasoline motor could furnish better transportation power than the horse. But Mr. Buick saw the future of the motor car. He sold his Buick & Sherwood interest...
...three years the $100,000 was gone. In its place was an engine that sometimes worked. Mr. Buick advertised in Detroit papers. He wanted a partner with capital. Among replies to the advertisement came a letter from one J. H. Whiting, Flint, Mich., banker and carriage maker. Mr. Whiting was willing to invest in the Buick automobile, provided that Mr. Buick could demonstrate the soundness of his invention by driving it from Detroit to Flint. The first Buick started out from Detroit under its own power, but was dragged back by a team of horses. It had broken down...
...organized an oil company. To finance the oil company he sold much of his automobile stock. Then title litigation wrecked the oil company? expensive litigation that consumed the remainder of the stock. With what he saved from the oil disaster. Mr. Buick went into real estate. He became partner in a company that controlled many acres. Unfortunately, they were Florida acres, and when the Florida boom collapsed the last of Mr. Buick's fortune went with...
...outstanding figures of the scholastic and professional worlds. Professor C. F. Taeusch of the Graduate School of Business Administration opened the morning meeting at 10.30 o'clock in Agassiz Houser Radcliffe College, with a critical analysis of "Ethics and Business." He was followed by A. V. Shaw, senior partner of Shaw, Loomis, and Sayles, who was informative and helpful on "The Teacher's Personal Investment Problem...