Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry provisions of the 1937 Neutrality Law, the historian said it has set the stage for a repetition of what occurred in 1914-18. They have made it inevitable for us to give "even greater economic support to England and her allies." The United States is now "a partner of Great Britain" in any war in the Atlantic, as well as in any between Japan and China in which England participates...
...ballerina, commenting on the Elis' performance, said that the Yale boy "who deed thees when he should have done that" would have made an excellent partner ". . . . eef he had not been so polite or so afraid...
...biggest heel in contemporary U. S. fiction is a smart guy named Harry Bogen. This Bronx boy made good last year in Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It For You Wholesale as the slickest, crookedest trader in Manhattan's garment centre, who railroaded his partner to prison, ended up with plenty of dough, a fancy chorus girl named Martha Mills and an invincible conviction that he knew...
...last crooked earnings, Harry decides to bounce Martha and go back into the dress business. The trouble is that Martha is a smarter guy than Harry: Before she is through with him he is neglecting the dress business to keep track of her and has swindled his partner out of $15,000 to oblige her with a trip around the world. When detectives beat him to the boat, Harry makes a getaway, wires Martha the whereabouts of all his cash and tells her to meet him in Philadelphia. In her gleeful reply Martha thanks him for the money, bids good...
...Curb the reform element was headed by an E. A. Pierce & Co. partner named Jerome Chester Cuppia, who, although he still sports the waxed mustache of the '90s, is in 1938 a member of more exchanges (14) than anyone else in the U. S. Way back in 1930 Jerry Cuppia suggested a paid president for the Curb, but he might as well have proposed to move the Curb back outdoors. His continued pressure for reform finally got him in so bad with the Old Guard that it blocked his re-election as a governor early this year...