Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate seat now warmed by Adman Bill Benton (Bowles's old partner in Benton & Bowles) looked a little more inviting. Mitchell put his influence behind a hearty, handsome Wall Street banker named Prescott Bush,-who played first base at Yale (1915-17), likes to dance the polka with the Polish girls and join in singing "the old songs" at political rallies. Bush was opposed by starchy Vivien Kellems, a Stonington manufacturer, one of the few Americans who is far enough to the right to be considered patriotic by Westbrook Pegler. Vivien stopped the roll call when it reached...
Joseph T. Walker, Jr., of Chestnut Hill, a general partner in the firm of Horn-blower and Weeks, Boston investment bankers, was elected a member of the Council and a trustee...
...after her second marriage, Henry's chief rival for the throne of England, Eustace of Blois, strangled on a dish of eels, and shortly after the Duke of Normandy added Britain to his fiefs. In the first years of their reign, Eleanor was Henry II's full partner in the building of empire. She made long progresses with him through their possessions, sometimes levied justice and taxes when he was away, and more than all, reformed the manners of Western Europe to woman's advantage. Item: men were no longer permitted to shamble, hang-stocking and grime...
...must be cash), many an investor in the current market had paid in full-and then tucked his stock away. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, biggest U.S. brokerage house, reported that for every margin trader on its books today, there are five others who pay in full. Said Managing Partner Winthrop Smith: "In 1929, it was just the other way around...
...demoralized Confederate Army. The morning Age-Herald (circ. 45,804) and the evening News (circ. 166,017), both published by C. B. Hanson Jr., made things so hot for Howard that last week he beat a strategic retreat. He folded the money-losing Post, and signed up as junior partner with the opposition (which folded the Age-Herald) in a new combined morning newspaper...