Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Stassen's chartered plane flew east from Oregon last week, Lawyer Elmer Ryan, of South St. Paul, entertained the Stassen party with a recitation. Chubby Mr. Ryan, Stassen's former law partner and political strategist, romped up & down the aisle of the plane reciting Casey at the Bat. Elmer was the pitcher, the umpire, a bleacher fan, the great Casey himself. Candidate Stassen, exhausted by the Oregon campaign, sat back and roared. But when Lawyer Ryan finally intoned: "Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright . . . But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty...
...client? Hull refused to name him. So did Hull's partner, Marvin C. Harrison, until SEC hauled them up before a federal judge in Detroit. He ordered them to answer or risk jail for contempt of court. Unhappy Lawyer Harrison then named the mysterious client: it was Cyrus Eaton...
Outsider In. The vast (assets over $4 billion) New York Life Insurance Co. went outside the company for a new president to replace George L. Harrison, 61, who was upped to chairman. Picked for the job was Harvardman Devereux C. Josephs, 54, onetime partner in Philadelphia's Graham Parsons & Co. brokerage house. Later he headed the Carnegie-endowed Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, and since 1945, has been president of Carnegie Corp. where he supervised spending (about $5,000,000 in 1947) on philanthropic projects...
Mining Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, ex-wife of ex-Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., left Manhattan for London, leaving behind some literary mementos: dinner-partner cards which she had written herself for a farewell party for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Her tribute to the duchess...
...Keller is a truly contemptible cheat, trapped by his own weakness, trying to bully his conscience out of existence, taking refuge from his acts in the fond belief that he acted "for his family." But his acquaintances give him credit only for being more "clever" than his partner who went to jail, and his own son deserts him as soon as he is convinced of his father's guilt. His wife Kate, played by Mady Christians, seeks refuge from her husband's acts in the firm conviction that Larry is still alive, until his letter convinces her that...