Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About three weeks ago, the ears of SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas tingled with pleasure when he received a telephone call from Partner George Whitney of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Whitney informed him that vast ($236,000,000) United Corp. was finally willing to discuss registering with SEC under the utility holding company...
...President's truce has since gone down the drain in a barrage of New Deal attacks on Big Business. Last week Partner Whitney marched in to see Chairman Douglas in the flesh, told him that, after all, United would not register until the Supreme Court validates the Holding Company Act. What is more, said Mr. Whitney, United had never intended to do otherwise...
Peopled with the stock characters of a Western thriller, Boom Town is notable for this realistic picture of its gunmen. The story revolves around Frank O'Rielly, who stumbles on a silver mine, exploits it with a young Eastern assayer, gets rich, falls in love with his partner's wife. Knocking down too many braggarts and bullies to be quite real, O'Rielly is, nevertheless, an interesting sketch, although hardly more; he is too intelligent to fit into the brutal, amoral environment in which he lives, but even more contemptuous of the world of bankers and speculators...
...read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
...year the birthday celebration should finance a new National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The event's organizers expect to raise $3,000,000, none of which will go to Georgia Warm Springs, but to research. Nominal head of the new organization is the President's onetime law partner, Basil O'Connor, who enthusiastically declared: "We could use the entire mint in this work and produce 10,000 Warm Springs." Actual head is Keith Morgan, good Roosevelt friend, glib insurance agent with a big-business clientele. Most of the trustees and directors of the new enterprise are businessmen...