Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were invited to give $25,000 for a scholarship. Very rich Harvardmen were invited to put up $500,000 to found a University Professorship. Last week Thomas William Lament, No. 2 partner and traditional spokesman of J. P. Morgan & Co., proved himself a very rich Harvardman. To Dr. Conant he wrote: "I am glad to give . . . $500,000 as a foundation for one of the University Professorships. It would be a great satisfaction if the Corporation were able to call to this...
...returned to New York. The Cuban Tourist Commission termed his statements "outrageous," threatened to bring them to the attention of the U. S. Secretary of State. The Cuban Boxing Commission suspended Promoter Jacobs for six months, fined him $500. Havana Promoter Samuel Tolon, who was to have been his partner, promised to sue Promoter Jacobs...
...Edward Riley Stettinius Jr., who is handsome, likable, supercharged with energy and white-haired at 35. His services were acquired by Steel Corp. last year after a meteoric rise to a General Motors vice-presidency and a brief but intense interlude in NRA. Son of the late Morgan Partner who directed Allied purchasing in the U. S. during the War, he is an executive by inheritance as well as by choice. Long on organization, strong on public relations, he has attended so many conferences and meetings that he habitually says "Gentlemen" even when talking to only two people...
...lawyer in the great city of Megapolis, is running for Congress on an independent ticket against both Republican and Democratic machines. By an accident he is elected, finds himself beholden not only to the machine he thought he was fighting but to the racketeering element. His newfound law partner, Myerberg, makes short work of his scruples: "When a reform movement elects one of its members to office, that ends it, there is nothing more for it to do ... the reform has won." Learning every minute. Caridius commutes by plane to his seat in the House, makes valuable new contacts...
Died. Carlos Ortiz Basualdo, 37, Argentine cattle tycoon; husband of Leonora Hughes, onetime Long Island telephone operator who became the dancing partner of the late, famed Maurice Mouvet; by drowning, when his speedboat overturned in Lake Nahuel Huapi in the Southern Argentine Andes...