Word: partner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, he selects a hapless youth just in Manhattan from Chillicothe with $22,000 in the bank. Two wolves of the stage jump at him and drop away with the bankroll in their jaws. He becomes a partner in their play, Her Lesson; sees it fail miserably at the first performance in Syracuse; buys it in a fit of anger; and makes it a wild success on Broadway. Coincidental possibly, is this plot; life, particularly theatrical life, is not like that. No one knows it better than Mr. Kaufman...
...Board met last week at the White House, chose D wight W. Morrow, J. P. Morgan partner to preside over its deliberations, fixed the committee room of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce as its metting place and announce its program. "The board plans to hear first the representatives of the air services of the army, the navy and the post office, as to their present condition, organization, equipment, mission and the relation of the services to each other. The board expects thereafter to invite numerous witnesses, including Colonel Mitchell, to appear before them with criticisms and constructive...
...there he was, "Hartvigsen" again, Mack's partner, his importance in the village so enormous there was no longer fun in boasting. Rosa's husband, fat, penniless, drunk, left for the South. Perhaps she would be his housekeeper; Mack had suggested it. She declined. Well, that was that. Perhaps he would find some one in the spring- and there the tale ends, exasperatingly inconclusive, like life...
Next morning startled U. S. financiers scanned an item in their newspapers and speculated. Quite without warning to the public, J. P. Morgan and his London partner, Vivian Smith, had sailed for England, and Thomas W. Lament had sent them...
...Davis and Secretary Hoover, he joined Mr. Davis in recommending such an investigation by outsiders. President Coolidge promptly acted on the suggestion. He named a board of nine: Major General James G. Harbord, retired, President of the Radio Corporation of America; Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, retired; Dwight W. Morrow, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co.; Howard E. Coffin, consulting engineer, aeronautics expert; Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, formerly in the Air Service, now a member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee; Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, of the House Naval Affairs Committee; Representative James S. Parker of N. Y., Chairman...