Word: partner
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Morgan Man. The House of Morgan got a new chairman, Russell C. Leffingwell, 69, a Morgan partner since 1923, a director of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc. since its incorporation in 1940. He succeeded the late Thomas W. Lamont. President George Whitney, Morgan's operating head since 1940, continues in the same...
...second book, The Anarchist, is better. Laid in 1903, it is the story of Esch, a short, red-faced, powerful bookkeeper who in a phlegmatic, almost indifferent way: 1) gets mixed up with the Social Democrats when his friend is jailed in a shipping strike; 2) becomes a partner in a theatrical venture featuring lady wrestlers, his task being to recruit the wrestlers; 3) seduces, or almost takes by assault, a middle-aged widow who owns a restaurant, and subsequently marries her. The book is a succession of drab quarrels over boardinghouse tables, dull arguments over money, cynical discussions...
...comfortably old-fashioned as his heating arrangements. Not in many a moon had he glad-handed so many people-from turbaned, bearded Most Rev. Dr. Mar Ivanios, Catholic Archbishop of Trivandrum, Travancore, India, to Eddie Jacobson, the Kansas City haberdasher who used to be Harry Truman's partner...
...Boston last night Phillips Ketchum '06, partner in the law firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald, Farley, and Ketchum, made one early declaration that under the broadly-defined provisions of the bill, which would render criminal the employment of subversives in educational institutions, "those supporting the United Nations, labor unions, and efforts to curtail racial discrimination" would all be suspect...
Thomas W. Phelps, a partner in Francis I. du Pont & Co. and one of Wall Street's leading exponents of the famed Dow theory, voiced the most prevalent view. Said Tom Phelps: "Many Americans, despite their dislike of Communism, lack enough faith in capitalism to risk their money on its ability to produce sustained prosperity. Many others . . . lack not faith but cash to buy stocks after paying record high taxes and living costs. [As a result] the stockmarket remains the only uninflated segment of our economy...