Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senior partner of ihe 104-year-old Wall Street firm of Davis Polk Wardwell Sunderland & Kiendl (95 lawyers). John W. Davis represents A.T.&T., Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, International Paper Co., et al. He did not need another client, and he already owned a tea service. Davis took the segregation case partly because an old friend, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, asked him to, partly as a matter of constitutional (states' rights) and social conviction ("Race is a fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear...
...Korea, as well as Manchuria, as potential abrasives. The State Department's current reading is that many more interests unite the Communist rulers of the two big nations than divide them, and that China is not a satellite of the Soviet Union (like Bulgaria, Rumania, etc.) but a partner-a decidedly junior partner...
...Sudan's master, Imperial Britain, and its expansion-minded neighbor, Egypt. The British annexed Sudan in 1899, after an Anglo-Egyptian army defeated Mahdi's followers at the battle of Omdurman. At first both London and Cairo shared the administration, but in 1925 the British kicked their partner out. Egyptian independence left Sudan as the northern bulwark of Britain's East African Empire. Sudan was Cairo's fief in the days before the Mahdi; more important, it controls the headstreams of the Nile. Cairo's policy is to unite the Nile valley from source...
...States joined in the Allied pledge of 1948, deeding to Italy eventual control both of Zone A, the city of Trieste, plus 86 square miles below Italy, and Zone B, 199 square distria. Now the United States and Britain, without consulting either the Security Council or France, their third partner in the '48 Tripartite, have decided to woo Tito with the lure of a share in Trieste. In a declaration on October 8, the two powers announced a revision in policy: they will soon withdraw their occupation troops from Zone A, turning that area over to the Italians. The would...
...Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary, Nathan Leopold, 49, partner in the notorious Loeb-Leopold "thrill murder" of Bobby Franks in 1924, got word that his brother Foreman, who died this month, had cut him out of his will. Foreman, who with his family changed his last name to Lebold, left a $400,000 estate to his widow...