Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minnesota, National Chairman Farley warned Democrats not to play games with Minnesota's Republicans just to beat the Farmer-Laborites: "Any help you give the Republicans . . . in 1938 will help defeat the Democrat party in 1940." Democratic Representative Elmer J. Ryan promptly endorsed his former law partner, Harold E. Stassen, Republican nominee for Governor, instead of Thomas Gallagher, the Democratic candidate. Said he: "If the National Administration were concerned about the strength of the Democratic party in Minnesota, the time to show that concern was two years ago, when the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator were withdrawn...
When he was 13, Benjamin Balish had saved $5,300 from peddling spoiled pineapples to slum dwellers on Manhattan's lower East Side. Then he turned to onions, at one time was making about $175,000 a year as active partner in Dingfelder & Balish, Manhattan onion and potato jobbing firm. Claiming he was U. S. "Onion King," Ben Balish last year bought out his partner, quiet, wealthy Carl I. Dingfelder (TIME, Oct. 18). Last fortnight, the 42-year-old Onion King declared himself broke, asked permission to reorganize Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. under Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...
Explanations of the King's downfall were as numerous as his enemies. The trade believed, however, that King Balish had been living too lavishly, had extended himself too far last year in buying Partner Dingfelder's interest, had plunged too heavily on several bad deals since 1929. In filing for bankruptcy, the Onion King listed liabilities of $150,970, assets of $414,576. Among the latter were $160,000 representing goodwill and value of the firm's brand, $42,000 listed as "advance to Ben Balish...
Crocker. After the road was finished, each partner believed he had been principally responsible. But big, blunt, bearded Charley Crocker simply said, "I built the Central Pacific," and let it go at that...
Stanford. Admirers compared Leland Stanford with Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great and John Stuart Mill, but Partner Collis Huntington described him tersely as "a damned old fool." His profound thought before he answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger...