Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program, Kit's family sees through his insults, she through his songs. Unhappily obstinate, she heads for Arizona and marriage to the bounder. How Pete, in the middle of his first broadcast before a swank crowd, succeeds in stopping her is too ridiculous to be funny: While his partner holds the radio station at bay by pretending to have a gun, Crooner Pete breaks off singing, babbles impassioned pleas to Kit over...
Billed as the "Herkimer Hurricane" because he comes from Herkimer, N. Y. and fights with less finesse than fury, Louis D'Ambrosio (Lou Ambers) used to be a sparring partner for Tony Canzoneri. That was when Canzoneri was lightweight champion three years ago. Last year, Ambers had progressed sufficiently to fight Canzoneri for the title, not sufficiently to win it. Last week, in Madison Square Garden's first major indoor fight of the season, they met again. This time, after 15 rounds of sincere if not particularly interesting scuffling, the referee and judges decreed that Ambers' enthusiasm...
...special study of taxicab horns arranged by New York City police marched spry old Jefferson Seligman, 78, organizer of Manhattan's League for Less Noise, longtime (1888-1934) partner in stockbroking J. & W. Seligman Co. Croaked he after hearing one that screamed, one that mooed: "Both the horns are rotten. The first one makes you jump, the second one makes you melancholy. What I'd like's a little whistle...
...only did King Edward predict Peace in Europe last week (see p. 20) but at No. 23 Wall Street the doors of J. P. Morgan & Co. opened to receive reporters who had arrived by unprecedented invitation to interview Partner Thomas William Lamont on the state of Europe, from which he had just returned. The Lamont pronouncement on Peace which followed easily ranked with the recent Lindbergh pronouncement on War, in which the airman, who married a onetime Morgan partner's daughter, voiced his apprehension of a major European conflict with Death raining from the skies (TIME...
...Chicago, glib, young polo-playing Charles Foster Glore, president of Chicago Corp. as well as a partner in the brokerage house of Field, Glore & Co., told newshawks that Chicago Corp., an investment company, and A. G. Becker & Co., investment bankers, had bought Continental Illinois National Bank's holdings in Middle West Corp. Chicago Corp. takes three-fifths of the purchase, Becker & Co the rest. The price: $12 a share, giving Continental, in which Chicago Corp. has large holdings, a small profit on its once forlorn investment in Middle West Corp...