Word: partner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years there the charms of electricity faded. He returned to Minnesota to enter the State University, to become a lawyer. His practice began and continued with "the greatest law firm between Chicago and the Pacific coast," later known as Mitchell, Doherty, Rumble, Bunn & Butler. Pierce Butler was long senior partner before his advancement to the Supreme Court of the United States...
Married. Gordon C. Thorne, 36, thrice-married son of the late W. C. Thorne, (early partner of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., Chicago mail order house); and a Mrs. Molin Bolin, 25, registered nurse, of Hammond, Ind.; in Crown Point...
Died. Reuben H. Donnelley, 64, of Chicago, chairman of the board of the Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (publishers of directories), vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (TIME'S printers); in Chicago. In 1905 Mr. Donnelley was a partner in a stock brokerage firm which went bankrupt. The firm paid 27? on the dollar, was free of debt, legally. But Partner Donnelley felt obligations, morally. Twenty-two years later, he repaid his creditors with interest, a sum of more than...
Morgan Banks. Both Guaranty Trust and National Bank of Commerce have connections with the House of Morgan, with the Morgan influence especially strong in Guaranty Trust. It was the late great Morgan Partner Henry P. Davison, who, in 1909, began Guaranty's period of swift expansion. Thomas W. Lamont and George Whitney are present Guaranty Morganites. President of Guaranty Trust is blond William Chapman Potter, onetime mining engineer; Chairman of its Board is swarthy Charles Hamilton Sabin, onetime Massachusetts farm-boy. They are brothers-in-law, their wives being daughters of the late Paul Morton, Roosevelt's Secretary...
...begat "Jack"-the present "J. Pierpont Morgan" (as he signs himself with nice filial deference). When introduced as "Mr. Morgan" at a recent smoker of his Harvard class of '89, he promptly cried: "Oh Hell, call me Jack!" Of course only his closest intimates and partners ever do. In common converse with the public a partner of the House of Morgan avoids mentioning his colleagues by any name or nickname. "One of our partners in Philadelphia" is supposed to be a designation so august that it would be fiscal sacrilege to ask "Which...