Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restless Bill Benton was still looking for something new to keep him busy. Last week, news leaked from the governor's office in Hartford that Bill Benton, now 49, had finally found it. To the ill-concealed dismay of Connecticut's regular Democrats, his old friend and partner Chester Bowles had decided on Benton, an independent and member of no political party, to succeed Republican Raymond E. Baldwin, who leaves the U.S. Senate this month for a seat on the Connecticut supreme court. Unless the regulars could stop the appointment, the firm of Benton & Bowles would be back...
...doubt about it, Bernstein is an actor. A young lady once remarked she thought he'd make a divine dancing partner. But for all his shenanigans on the podium, Bernstein is an excellent conductor, and it's not unreasonable to suppose that had he had 20 years' more age and experience, he might have succeeded Dr. Koussevitzky as permanent conductor...
...Harlem crap games. He was a partner in something called the Horowitz Novelty Co. which dealt in Kewpie dolls, razor blades and punchboards. It went bankrupt, left its creditors holding the sack, was reborn as the Dainties Products Co.-and boomed. He put his money into real estate, built apartments and five-story walkups in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx, and with his investments hit another jackpot...
...Britain and the U.S., developed and consistently followed by Mackenzie King, was no longer the rule under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Canada had some strong opinions of her own and she wanted policymaking partnership with the big powers. Said Pearson: "The U.S. must . . . recognize [Canada] ... as a cooperating partner, not as a camp follower...
...that unit sales would pick up and match last year's record high, although dollar volume would dip. Next year looked almost as good. "The next six months," predicted Lazarus, "will show no further drop in employment or production." Federated's Director Paul M. Mazur, a senior partner of Manhattan's Lehman Bros, investment banking firm, thought that the strikes even held some concealed blessings for business: "They often provide a heaven-sent opportunity to clean up burdensome inventories...