Word: partner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seemed mainly social. Rooming houses openly proclaimed "No colored." Hotels were "full" to Negro applicants. Restaurants often refused to serve them, some pubs segregated Negroes in one room, whites in another. Dance halls all over the Midlands would quietly bar any Negro who did not bring his own partner. Said a ballroom manager: "We're not against them, we just don't want any trouble...
...gets on-camera. few show's rely solely on their "people getters." They have their own interviews, their own exhaustive questionnaires. Some of them even require references. Diane, who supplies contestants for both Dotto and Haggis Baggis (on a regular retainer) and also sends a few to Lucky Partner and Name That Tune (which pay by the head), conducts her own interviews-in-depth. She is opposed to the popular practice of giving written tests before screening contestants. "Anyone can look bad on written questions," says she. "And anyway, what good is it, however bright you are, if nobody...
...Daniel L. Gutman, partner in Zuckerman, Smith & Co.: "The market is enormously dangerous at current levels. There is a great deal of ignorant and superficial buying which is using inflation as an excuse. Unless inflation shows up in earnings and dividends, this reasoning is stupid. The market over the next six months will sell materially lower, touching last fall...
...Arthur Jansen, partner in W. E. Burnet & Co.: "The market is too high. At these levels it would take a couple of years for the improvement in earnings to catch up with market prices. If someone came to me with money to invest, I'd advise putting part of it in the bank...
...Irving Kahn, partner in J. R. Williston & Beane: "When people pay 40 and 50 times earnings for a stock, they are multiplying when they should be adding...