Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale, he and another pushy youngster named J. Roy Allen bumped into a Cleveland candymaker who, for a sideline, manufactured hard little mints shaped like and labeled Life Savers. Pushy Roy Allen and canny Ed Noble bought the idea and name in 1913 with money partly borrowed from Partner Allen's mother. They transferred operations to a loft in Manhattan, promoted Life Savers into a $4,000,000-per-year enterprise, which Ed Noble now calls "a happy, whimsical little business...
...resurrection, for he had not been buried. Thanks partly to his patron and law partner, the late Elder Statesman Root, Colonel Stimson had been in & out of appointive office (as Taft's Secretary of War, Coolidge's Governor General of the Philippines) long before he went in & out with Herbert Hoover. People born in the late 19th Century remember him as a baggy, slightly fuzzy graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School in the fuzzy role which Secretaries of State occupied during years when U. S. foreign policy consisted of having almost no policy. Secretary Stimson, rigid legalist...
Cheap. For months Dictator Mussolini has eyed well-armed French Tunisia, has made passes at French Somaliland, has shouted for a share in the Suez Canal. He got nowhere while Partner Hitler snatched territory right & left. In Albania he got a cheap victory; he also gave a ringing answer to Britain's anti-aggression moves and served notice that Rome and Berlin were still on the offensive...
First prize ($15,000) for 70-foot mosquitoes went to the Manhattan firm of Sparkman & Stephens, whose Partner Olin Stephens in 1931 skippered the 52-foot racing yawl Dorade across the Atlantic in 17 days, 2 hours 14 minutes, later was a codesigner of Harold Vanderbilt's Cup-winning Ranger. As a specialist in sailboats for rich men, famed young (30) Mr. Stephens left the designing of a motored mosquito to his expert helper, Gilbert Wyland, was modestly annoyed when Designer Wyland gave the credit to his boss. Another $15,000 for the best 54-footer...
...dawn Peter Corbett, junior partner of Johnson, Bellinger & Corbett, rose drunkenly from the clammy garage floor. He was wet, grease-smeared, his head ached and he was sick at his stomach. His wife and baby lay huddled asleep in the back seat of the Austin. In a junior bed, flanked by the garden roller and a sandbox, slept Phyllis, 6, John 3. The nurse lay rolled up in an eiderdown beside...