Word: partner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard C. Callen, U. S. Marshal in Denver, Colo., went, a special warrant signed by President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg for the arrest and extradition from France of Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive from justice. Mr. Blackmer was a partner of Oilman Harry F. Sinclair in the Continental Trading Co., of Teapot Dome ill-fame. After banking his $736,000 share of profits, he fled the country when the Continental Trading Co. was investigated by the U. S. He refused to return to testify. Tax liens and penalties of $8,498,935.78 were piled up against...
...News-Scimitar; a paper in Lancaster, Pa. These he bought and then sold. But he rejects vigorously the idea that he is a newspaper broker. "It is a good business," he says, "but it is not my business." He sold the Mail, he explains, because neither he nor his partner, Henry L. Stoddard, had the money to carry on. The Journal was a sacrifice to a Hearst scare in Detroit. Neither the News-Scimitar nor the Lancaster paper interested him. The one he bought to settle a debt; the other to give a friend...
...went into a clinch with my head down, something I never do. I plunged forward, and my partner's head came up and butted me over the left eye, cutting me and dazing me badly...
This amazing reversal of time-honored Mexican methods was attributed by some to hypothetical words of counsel supposed to have reached the ear of President Calles, last week, from the lips of U. S. Ambassador and onetime Morgan Partner Dwight Whitney Morrow. Conceivably General Zertuche was naively reacting to Presidential orders and Ambassadorial advice when he nervously and repeatedly ejaculated to correspondents, "Must keep calm...
Miller of N. Y.; and Marcel Pierre Labourdette, son and partner of President Charles Labourdette of P. Labourdette et Cie., Paris exporting company; at Oyster Bay, L. I. The engagement of Elizabeth Miller, another of the seven Miller sisters, to Alvin T. Adams of Denver, was an nounced last week...