Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas City the motive for last month's assassination of Mobster Charles Gargotta was made a little clearer: Gargotta had squealed. Hauled before the federal grand jury in February, he had implicated partners and associates in Kansas City's sleazy underworld. After him, gamblers, saloonkeepers, triggermen and politicians had paraded before the jury spilling all-or almost all-they knew. An enraged underworld, apparently, had decided that it must rub out Witness Gargotta, had forthwith shot him down along with his partner, Political Boss Charles Binaggio, in the First District Democratic Club on Truman Road. The grand jury...
Local spectators will probably see the best tennis of the home season when North Carolina's Tarheels invade Soldiers Field courts at 2 p.m. today. Led by Clark Taylor, Vic Seixas' doubles partner of last year and nationally ranked singles player, North Carolina is one of the strongest outfits in the East. But the match should not be nearly so one-sided as the 13 to 0 and 12 to 1 pastings the Tarheels handed to an inexperienced Crimson on the spring trip...
...South African gold mine promoters, who had perpetrated one of the biggest swindles in their country's history (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947), last week got their comeuppance. In Johannesburg, horse-racing Norbert Stephen Erleigh, 46, and his rude, crude ex-partner, Joseph Milne, 53, were convicted on a combined total of 63 fraud and theft counts. The court said that their New Union Goldfields, Ltd., which had once controlled 160 companies valued at some ?30 million, "was, in reality, a gambling house...
...brother Benjamin Howell Griswold Ill, 38, the active head is greying, sharp-eyed Charles Stedman Garland, 51, no kin. An Old Blue who captained the Yale and Davis Cup tennis teams and once won (with R. Norris Williams II) the world championship doubles at Wimbledon, Chuck Garland became a partner in Alex. Brown & Sons in 1939, is a past president of the venerable Investment Bankers' Association...
...future, Partner Garland expects to keep running the firm on the principle laid down by old Alex Brown: "Don't deal with people about whose integrity and character there is question. It keeps your mind uneasy. It is far better to lose the business...