Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clancy's concern for the old and unfortunate went even further-to make sure they got work, one of Clancy's deputies had the job of hiring all dealers, croupiers, chartmakers and other attendants of illegal establishments. Clancy agreed to let Dandy Phil Kastel, partner of Manhattan's Frank Costello, open a gambling spot on the understanding that it would help relieve local unemployment. Unless they hired local people, said Clancy grandly, gamblers couldn't open in Jefferson...
...result was that in 1929, when Colbert knocked on the door of Manhattan's law firm, Larkin, Rathbone & Perry, the interviewer described him as "a personable young man with no recommendation from the Dean." Nevertheless, Colbert's bounce, flair and talk caught the fancy of Partner Nicholas Kelley, a Chrysler vice president, director and legal adviser. Kelley hired him as a law clerk at $2,100 a year-less than a single summer's earnings on the cotton market...
...went into the Army, never got overseas, but left a reputation at Fort Leavenworth as "the world's worst second lieutenant." In the Army he wrote his first novel, which was rejected by Scribner. And while at camp in Alabama he met his future wife and drinking partner, Zelda Sayre, "just 18, a beautiful girl with marvelous golden hair and that air of innocent assurance attractive Southern girls have...
...obviously will attack before the Atlantic pact forces are built up, and it will take at least three years to build them up. Why should they wait?" He conceded that the U.S. could not welsh on its treaty pledge to come to the aid of any attacked North Atlantic partner. But he insisted that this implied no obligation to contribute U.S. divisions to the North Atlantic army...
...effect, Aramco made old Ibn Saud an equal partner, who would share & share alike in all of Aramco's profits, including 1950's whopping net (before royalties) of $180 million. For Ibn Saud and Saudi Arabia, it meant a kingly take of $90 million, 50% more than the $60 million that would have been paid under the old royalty payments of 34? a barrel. If, as expected, Aramco rings up an operating profit of $200 million in 1951, Ibn Saud will get half of that...