Word: partner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends of Prohibition were perturbed by discovering that another new director of the A. A. P. A. is First Citizen de Forest's almost equally distinguished brother and law partner, Henry Wheeler de Forest, 72, who serves on the directorates of many a potent railroad and of such systems as Western Union and the American Express...
Engaged. Corliss Lamont, graduate student at Columbia University, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont, of Manhattan; to Miss Margaret Hayes Irish, of Troy...
...those Atchison directors are such bishops of U. S. finance as: William Benson Storey, President of the Atchison; Edward Julius Berwind, Manhattan holder of coal, shipping and transportation enterprises; William Chapman Potter, President of the Guaranty Trust of Manhattan; Arthur Twining Hadley, President Emeritus of Yale; Charles Steele, Morgan partner; Henry Smith Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation since 1906; and Myron Charles Taylor, Chairman of U. S. Steel's finance committee...
...discovered the rich Baltic coppermine in the Lake Superior copper-district, and he managed the Hecla mine. The son, however, when he reached manhood, at first would have nothing to do with copper. He preferred to deal with another subsoil wealth-the oil that John D. Rockefeller and his partners were selling. In that way he met the late Marcus Daly, western mine-promoter and Montana banker. John D. Ryan in 1901 (when he was 37) helped to organize the Daly Bank and Trust Co. at Butte, Montana, and later became its president. He was then, at the beginning...
...Loveday buccaneered through garish London night life, dipped her black flag to Charles-"formal, formidable, fastidious," to which descriptive f's Loveday later added "fatuous, fulsome," because of his devotion to a silly mother, self-styled "Petal." Bankrupt, Pirate Loveday shipped for foreign parts as partner to a professional dancer. In Budapest he attempted his own interpretation of "keeping company," but Loveday "whooshed"' off to London, on the "wadge" of kronen which a Hungarian tart pulled generously out of her stocking...