Word: partner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dishes & Stymies. His G.O.P. opponent, also a wealthy amateur in national politics, matched him trick for trick. A partner in the Wall Street firm of Brown Brothers, Harriman, tall, ruggedly handsome Prescott Bush had 15-minute TV spots, five-minute TV spots, and one-minute TV spots. A Yaleman (Skull & Bones), director of more than half a dozen corporations, and a sportsman (as onetime U.S. Golf Association president, he is generally credited with leading the campaign for the abolition of the stymie), Bush felt his problem, too, was to meet the people. He had himself photographed shaking hands with dishwashers...
Shattuck is a partner in the firm of Hausermann, Davison, and Shattuck in Boston, and the author of several books on estate and trust administration Schlesinger published "The Vital Center" last year...
...Henry Ford died in 1947, and that two of the original sponsors of the enterprise were sent to prison last year for mail fraud in connection with the swindle, only speeded up collections. Mrs. Marie Fuller, grandmotherly operator of a Canton beauty parlor, had been, a sort of silent partner in the conspiracy. She began operating more openly, and at the same time the investors began getting letters, telegrams and telephone calls from someone who announced himself as "Benson Ford...
...organization was heading for more centralization and more control . . . we were for decentralization." They even give each other plenty of leeway. When one of them gets an idea for a movie, he consults closely with the other, then does the script and direction himself, drawing freely on his partner's advice...
Vera Ellen does a graceful job as Astaire's dancing partner. The couple performs remarkably in a number called "Two Dancers at Home" in which, among other things, they play football with a baby and fall through a wall...