Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corn and beans deal; instead, a new food scandal broke. Guatemala's established importers of flour charged that Minister of Economy Jorge Arenales had set up a quota system that virtually handed an import monopoly to a group of businessmen represented by his own former law partner. Arenales tried to defend his move as an encouragement for growing and milling wheat locally. But the press was unconvinced. Columnist José Alfredo Palmieri sighed: "Corn, beans, and now flour-the best profits are always made on hunger . . . Food speculation hands the Communists all the arguments...
...army's East End hostel, Brigadier Langdon celebrated the same anniversary by writing the words "Case successful" on another dossier-of a partner in a bankrupt decorating firm who had cashed a bad check to get clothes for his children, then had come up to London to kill himself (among other things, the Salvation Army made good the check...
Although he has always moved mysteriously in international circles, Sir William Wiseman, tenth baronet of Ulster, partner in Manhattan's Kuhn, Loeb & Co., has never made much of a public splash. He graduated from Cambridge, was gassed at Ypres, studied espionage at Scotland Yard, at 30 was the second most powerful Briton in the U.S., unofficial head of His Majesty's World War I secret service in the U.S. and Woodrow Wilson's "confidential Englishman." Afterward he joined Kuhn, Loeb, the second greatest U.S. private banking house (the first: J. P. Morgan & Co.), but kept his British...
KRUPP, Germany's famed wartime munitions-maker, is going back into armaments, this time to make aircraft. Krupp's partner: Designer Heinrich Focke of the wartime team of Focke-Wulf, which turned out the famed Fw-190 Nazi fighter...
William Blair, Stevenson's law partner, putting together a paid team of writers, researchers and braintrusters, last week revealed that he has hired Harry Ashmore, the Fair-Dealing executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, as Stevenson's chief pressagent...