Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house at 16 after high school and a short turn in a commercial college. Four years later with $1,000 he had saved and another $1,000 given him by his father, he struck out for himself, forming his own commission house with a partner named Maurice B. Clark. That summer the first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pa., but young Rockefeller was still engrossed in produce. Thanks largely to his prodigious capacity for work, his infinite capacity for detail, the firm did a $450,000 business the first year. Like most...
...associates could be sued only as agents of the Government and, as everyone knew, the Government could not be sued without its consent. "We can't show you a case where an Attorney General has ever been restrained," cried Judge Gibson's son-in-law's partner, "but never did an Attorney General attempt such an action as this...
Another explanation of the drooping stockmarket arrived from Britain last week in a fortnightly letter published by Silverston & Co., London brokers. Written by W. B. Burton-Baldry. a genial Silverston partner who sprinkles his work with classical quotations and likes to spend his vacations in the U. S., the letter suggested that in view of the fact that the London Stock Exchange had just enjoyed the worst three-week break since the War, Britain could do worse than get itself an SEC. Wrote sarcastic Broker Burton-Baldry...
Luigi D'Ambrosio (Lou Ambers) and Tony Canzoneri began fighting each other in 1931. They fought several rounds every day. Canzoneri, then lightweight champion, was training for an important bout and Ambers was his sparring partner. When Canzoneri finished training and his sparring partner went on to become a fighter famed in his own right, the Canzoneri v. Ambers combat, instead of ending, became intensified. When they met for the lightweight championship in 1935, Canzoneri won. When they met again last September, Ambers won. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, they fought for the championship once more. This time...
...Wall Street's most spectacular auction. Passed to Mr. Ball last week was a check for $3,000,000 made out to the philanthropic George & Frances Ball Foundation and signed by Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the founders of F. W. Woolworth Co. and the third partner in the deal. Another $1,000,000 came from Messrs. Young & Kolbe. Rest of the sale price for control of Alleghany Corp. ($6,375,000) was made up by a promissory note for $2,375,000, payable in two years and secured by 1,200,000 shares of Alleghany common...