Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrorist" while withholding the same qualification from Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The labor movement, the proletariat as a whole can expect nothing but sniggering from a magazine whose heart bleeds over poor J. P. Morgan having to answer questions before a horrid munitions investigating committee. Your cut of a Morgan partner exposed to the "cold stare" of a committee clerk was a perfect illustration of your antipathy...
Sharp-witted Partner Thomas W. Lament, who feared this pronouncement might not make good publicity, intervened in a fruitless attempt to persuade the correspondents to ignore it. Good were Mr. Lament's premonitions. Partner Morgan's opinions on the leisure class were kidded on the front pages of newspapers from coast to coast. Some editors pointed out that in 1930 there were less than 30,000,000 families in the U. S., all of which by no means had one servant. Others dug up the fact that there were less than 2,000,000 cooks and servants listed...
While the U. S. was waiting last week for the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court to make up their minds about TVA, workmen draped the elaborate Italian ceiling of the 64-ft. square courtroom with a cheap canvas screen. Also last week in Manhattan a onetime partner of the architect responsible for that classic pile across the plaza from the Capitol sued the architect's son and daughter for a sum estimated at a quarter of a million dollars...
Cass Gilbert Jr. will probably have to find a new partner to assist him. Onetime partner in the firm of Cass Gilbert Inc. was John R. Rockart. In New York's Supreme Court last week he brought suit, claiming that during Cass Gilbert's lifetime he had an arrangement guaranteeing him "more than one-eighth" of the gross architectural commissions on which he worked. Since Architect Gilbert's death in May, 1934, John Rockart insists that he was in complete charge of the Supreme Court Building operations, hence deserves one-fourth of the profits on the building...
...country, a cantankerous husband who had not had a job since the War. three growing children. Most of her family, most of her friends thought Claudia a wonder, gave her their admiring pity for being such a cheerful martyr. But women are hard to fool about women. Her partner Sal, her sister Anna saw through Claudia. One of her daughters was beginning...