Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Californian wants Joe to become a partner in his gold mine...
...They were no sooner married than Clifford began nourishing as a lawyer. St. Louis Lawyer Jacob Lashly began throwing accident cases his way, soon saw that with juries, handsome, earnest Clifford was "well nigh irresistible." By 1938 the firm became Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford and by 1942 the new partner was making $25,000 a year...
...sedate old Murray Hill house was built in 1863, its walls rumored to be bulletproofed against Civil War draft rioters. George S. Bowdoin, a partner of J. P. Morgan, acquired it some 20 years later. In its backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...
Ferguson Lands. Harry Ferguson, Inc., which lost its old tractor-making partner, the Ford Motor Co. (TIME, July 21), imported the first 200 tractors from its new supplier, Standard Motor Co. Ltd., of Coventry, England. Standard, which is shipping 100 tractors a day, hopes they will help U.S. sales of its new 72-h.p. automobile (price: "less than $2,000"). The tractors and cars will have many interchangeable parts...
...written a Holiday Quickstep and been pronounced a genius by the Danbury (Conn.) Evening News. But after Yale, he decided that he couldn't make a living writing the kind of music he wanted to; he went into insurance and became highly successful (he is a retired partner in the Manhattan firm of Ives & Myrick). In his lunch hours and evenings, he composed...