Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman all in pink who soars through the young girl's room (Le Spectre de la Rose), the fantastically white-faced can-can dancer in La Boutique Fantasque, the jolly hussy of a street dancer in Le Beau Danube, the slim bluebird and her lightly-leaping partner in Aurora's Wedding-these favorite characters of U. S. ballet fans were once more on the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. They were personified by Paul Petroff, Léonide Massine, Alexandra Danilova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
Shao-hsiung from Nanking, and was rumored devoting all his time to frantic efforts to move $10,000,000 in treasure, his personal fortune, away from imminent capture by advancing Japanese troops. Meanwhile to Generalissimo Chiang there rushed from south China able General Li Tsung-ien, longtime War Lord partner of able Pai Tsung-hsi (TIME, Sept. 6). Eight years ago these two rebelled against Chiang because he was then unwilling to fight Japan as they thought China should. Last month General Pai became Chief of Staff to the Generalissimo. Last week after a final patching up of broken friendships...
Banker Gates, who had danced for the Mask & Wig Club as an undergraduate at the U. of P. (Class of 1893) and gone on to become one of Philadelphia's richest men, became bored with private banking in 1930, resigned as a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co. to seek "romance and high adventure" in running his old university, which he insisted on doing without pay. Soon he put Education on a business basis, balancing the budget by reducing expenses from $9,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, projecting a 15-year money-raising program to replace...
Next Balish partner was Abraham Rosenblum, "Onion King" in 1918 when young Ben went to work for him. Three years later, having saved $35,000, Onionman Balish joined forces with a rich 50-year-old produce jobber named Carl I. Dingfelder. Dingfelder put up most of the money, Balish the onion experience, and by 1923 Dingfelder & Balish were tops in onion jobbing...
...about 12,000. Total U. S. onion production last year was 70,000 carloads, of which Dingfelder & Balish handled more than any other firm. Also interested in potatoes, they had gross sales of $5,000,000. Last month after some disagreements Onion King Balish bought out his partner. Last week the new firm of Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. was squared off to dominate this year's smallish crop of 50,000 carloads, harvested from crops in most States. Mr. Dingfelder returned to the produce firm of C. I. & M. Dingfelder in which he long had an interest...