Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Hamilton proceeded to point out that a longtime law partner of his had been a Jew, that long before the current campaign began he had hired a Jew as his secretary. "Governor Landon," cried he, "is just as tolerant as I am. . . . The religious issue has no part in a campaign. It involves the very basic elements of our form of government and jeopardizes the very foundations of the Constitution. But jeopardizing the Constitution is nothing to the New Dealers, who have been jeopardizing it now for nearly four years...
Public Enemy's Wife (Warner) is another salty little treatise on the G-man, whose habits, indoors and out, are of such moment to Warner Brothers. Here the G-man (Pat O'Brien) and his partner (Robert Armstrong) are to be seen engaged in a man hunt for Gangster Gene Maroc (Cesar Romero) whom they expect to find loitering jealously near his ex-wife (Margaret Lindsay). The crisis of the picture arrives during a wedding ceremony which, planned as a trap for Gangster Maroc, fails when Maroc, instead of shooting the bridegroom, merely snickers at him from...
Died. Roscoe Fawcett, 49, Minneapolis sportsman, brother and publishing partner of Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett (Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Jim Jam Jems, Smokehouse Monthly, Hooey); in Rochester, Minn...
Lane of the Llano is the story of Jim (Lane) Cook as he told it to Professor T. M. Pearce. A white-bearded, sturdy old man, now 77, Jim Cook was born in what is now Kimble County, the son of an Indian trader who became a partner of John Chisum. He pronounced Guadalupe "Warloopy," mixed history, folklore, social theory with his memoirs, all of which was taken down by his audience. Jim was captured by Indians when he was n, grew up with them, married an Indian girl, escaped. He worked as a cowhand, knew Billy the Kid, outsmarted...
First big account was Certo, for General Foods Corp. Knowing nothing about gelatin products, Partner Benton went to New Jersey, Partner Bowles to Connecticut, ringing doorbells for four months, asking housewives questions until they had 533 typewritten pages of data for their campaign. General Foods gave the young firm a terrific boost when it handed Salesman Benton six big food accounts on his birthday in 1932, still entrusts it with a handsome slice of its $10,000,000 annual advertising budget. One of Benton & Bowles's smartest stunts was to cash in on 1933 Repeal sentiment for Adolf Gobel...