Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn a Republican out of a Senate seat. Truman opposed Hennings in the primary in his home state, was glad enough to get him in the finals. ¶ In Connecticut, Adman Bill Benton squeaked through over Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, while Benton's old advertising-agency partner, Chester Bowles, was losing the governorship (see below). Brien ("Mr. Atom") McMahon, who ignored both Benton & Bowles, was easily reelected...
...Roland Harriman, 54, son of the late Railroad Builder E. H. Harriman, younger brother of Presidential Adviser Averell Harriman, was named president of the American Red Cross, succeeding General George C. Marshall, who will resign Dec. 1. A partner in his family's Wall Street banking firm (Brown Bros., Harriman), Yaleman ('17) Harriman is chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad, directed the 1949 Red Cross fund campaign...
...total, he says, is the Roman Catholic custom of counting anybody who has been baptized a Catholic, even though he may have since joined a Protestant church. This principle works a great hardship upon young Protestants who want to get married, since Spanish law demands that if either partner has had a Catholic baptism, the couple must be married by a Roman Catholic priest. Even "an affidavit from a Protestant pastor that the parties are members of his church," writes Garrison, "is not regarded as 'documentary proof of non-Catholicity.' They still might have had Catholic baptism...
Soon the company spread. On the profits, the tea company opened new red-fronted stores in surrounding towns, started wagon routes to sell tea & spices to farm wives, changed the company's name to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Partner Gilman soon sold out and retired on his profits, but Hartford plugged on. By 1880, when his plump, 16-year-old son George quit school to become his cashier, he had 100 stores...
...painful, powerful picture of concentration-camp barbarism records a horror intimately known to millions; 2) its villain is, conveniently, neither Fascism nor Communism but a machine age which has dried up love and compassion, and 3) the U.S. is presented as a rich, prodigal but heartless partner of the totalitarian in the diabolical job of crushing the individual...