Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he calms by striding about his office and inhaling great whiffs from a small green crystal bottle of smelling salts. From TIME the Daily Express had picked up and reprinted the fact that Putzy in one of these nervous moments exclaimed to Manhattan Lawyer William Ormonde Thompson, onetime partner of Clarence Darrow: "Damn those Oxford professors! I will send some of our swine to burn down their Oxford!" Lawyer Thompson, duly brought to London from New York last week, declared under oath in the witness box that Dr. Hanfstaengl spoke exactly as quoted. What had wrought Putzy...
...fledging architectural firms which were building not by the house but by the mile, after the Chicago fire. At 18 he had passed, after six weeks' cramming, the rigorous entrance examinations of L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. At 24 he was back in Chicago, a partner with Dankmar Adler in one of the rising firms of the West. Adler, the businessman, and Sullivan, the delicate-fingered designer, took as one of their first jobs what is still an extraordinary architectural achievement: Chicago's Auditorium, comprising a theatre, a recital hall, a hotel and offices...
...zoomed on his cue ball, rested comfortably while Layton fidgeted. When the fly took flight, Layton fumbled, let Hoppe beat him for the first time in tournament competition. 50-to-49. Finally Cochran, toppled only by Arthur Thurnblad, 1931's winner, faced Hoppe, his onetime U. S. touring partner, previously beaten by Allen Hall...
...stumbled on the work of one of the bitterest and most effective enemies of war in France. Jean Galtier-Boissière founded Crapouillot (name of a small trench cannon) in 1915, at first distributed it only to his fellow soldiers. After the War he branched out, took a partner, began to make journalistic history with a brand of fearless muckraking which caused French citizens' eyes to pop, French officials' hair to rise. With stark facts and photographs Crapouillot took out such disagreeable subjects as the origins and secret causes of the War; French mutinies of 1917; Wartime...
Curtis, who last year was a partner in College Service, is in charge of all laundry contracts at the Coop this year. He is a member of the Winthrop House Committee, and played on his house football eleven which tied with Yale's Berkeley College this fall...