Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgenthau went into action. Cards printed in haste but with greatest dignity suddenly announced the disruption of the venerable law firm of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight. This is the firm from which the Chief Justice of the U. S. resigned to mount the high bench in 1930. The present senior partner, Charles Evans Hughes Jr., announced the formation of Hughes, Richards, Hubbard & Ewing. His former partner, the business & tax expert of the old firm, announced under the name of Dwight, Harris, Koegel & Caskey...
Manhattan and Washington quickly guessed what had happened. Lawyer Dwight's name was, rightly or wrongly, down on Secretary Morgenthau's list as a practitioner of income tax devices such as the White House was now condemning. However remotely, Partner Hughes's father's name might now be linked with that of a specimen in the Congressional fishbowl. Instant dissolution of this link was the only thing possible for Mr. Hughes...
George Whitney, 51, Morgan partner, was reported resting comfortably after an appendectomy performed in New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
...Newshawks Raymond Clapper, J. Fred Essary, Ulric Bell, Ernest Lindley, Secretary Morgenthau, James Roosevelt and their wives, not to mention Gracie Hall Roosevelt and his sister, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. The President from his armchair called the changes: "Do-see-do! Down the middle and back again! . . . Swing your partner around to the right." Fledgling newshawks clapped in time to Turkey in the Straw, Dixie and Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts of the East Room. That evening the President stuck to his armchair instead of retiring early...
...German-born Boston milk-dealer, Archibald Robertson Graustein whisked through Harvard Law School by the age of 21; at 25 was partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, at 39 was president of International Paper Co., world's largest paper maker. Last year Mr. Graustein and International Paper parted company (TIME, Feb. 17, 1936), and Mr. Graustein began 'practicing corporate law in Manhattan. Last week, at 51, he was appointed special counsel in charge of corporate reorganization for the U. S. Maritime Commission, now busy in Washington on the vast job of subsidizing...