Word: partner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Partner Wilson might have tried to seize the Democratic nomination except that Democratic Boss Kelly got there ahead of him. So while Partner Hadley rounded up support of the Penrose faction, Partner Wilson rounded up support of the Vare faction and began to make things...
...without seriously depleting its treasury. Second was a vast program of plant improvement still in progress. Third was to pension off an army of aging executives, re-peopling Steel's offices with smart young men, of whom the most notable was Edward Riley Stettinius, son of the late Morgan partner. Now only 34 and vice chairman of the omnipotent finance committee, Steelman Stettinius was supposed to have been hand-picked as a likely future head for U. S. Steel...
...lost his job with the Rockefellers (TIME, March 18, 1929). Today Correspondent Anderson and Scripps-Howard's Ruth Finney, who has all a woman's ingenuity in asking embarrassing questions, are Senator Black's two closest Press aids. Hugo Black is not a Tom Walsh but with the silent partner of Tom Walsh leaning over his shoulder, a Senate investigation is still no place for a man with something to hide...
...plot Bright Lights revives the old standby about the burlesque comedian who makes a hit in a Broadway show and falls in love with a fickle society heiress while his faithful wife and partner goes back to "burleycue." Before Comedian Brown is brought to see the error of his ways he is given opportunity not only to sing and dance but turn a back somersault, take innumerable falls, chase madly hither & yon, utter his famed maniacal yell on numerous occasions and tell in baby talk an interminable story about a " 'little bitsy mousie." To show his dramatic ability...
...takes a nap before dinner, stays up most of the night, has a dirt phobia, orders coffee before soup when dining out, arrives late for all engagements, laughs in a deafening high-pitched guffaw. The oddities of Mr. Marshall's behavior do not argue lack of acumen. Onetime partner in a small-time vaudeville act with Cinema Director Monta Bell, he built up his string of laundries, conveniently situated in a city where the percentage of stiff shirts and white ties is abnormally high, from a single run-down mangling establishment which he inherited from his father. Convivial, impudent...