Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk. Newsmen tensed, ready to spring for the nearest telephones. By that moment last week it was clear that Talbott had misused his position as Secretary of the Air Force to solicit business for Paul B. Mulligan & Co., the Manhattan clerical-efficiency firm in which he was a partner. Almost everyone in the subcommittee's hearing room thought that he was about to resign from the Air Force. Talbott resigned, all right-from Mulligan...
Among the witnesses was stocky, crisp-talking Samuel E. Ewing, general attorney for R.C.A.'s manufacturing and services divisions. He told of a meeting early last December with Talbott's partner, Efficiency Expert Paul B. Mulligan, to discuss the possibility of an R.C.A.-Mulligan contract. Said Ewing: "I endeavored to explain to Mr. Mulligan the problems that we saw in the situation ... He said that he was no lawyer and he did not want to get into that with me. He asked if I objected if he called Secretary Talbott. I said I did not object...
...Files. Before taking office in 1953, Talbott told the Senate Armed Services Committee about Mulligan & Co. Under an agreement with Partner Paul Mulligan, he explained, "no work was to be done while I am in Washington that had to do with defense work essentially." But recently the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee heard that, from his Pentagon office, Secretary Talbott was still drumming up business for Mulligan & Co. When questioned...
Talbott replied: "RCA had questioned the propriety of having another contract with Mulligan with me as a partner [and requested] that a letter be procured from the Attorney General. I said, 'My goodness, if there is any such suspicion, forget it.' " Repeatedly, Talbott was asked whether he and his Air Force general counsel, John Johnson, had called RCA Attorney Sam Ewing to complain. "My memory," he said, "is very hazy." Next day, after checking with Air Force Counsel Johnson, Harold Talbott remembered that he had indeed complained over the phone to RCA's Ewing about the contract...
Financial Advice. A liking for revenue-producing land is nothing new with Marion (says she of jewelry: "All you do is pay insurance"). She remembers her first purchase: around 1936, "I was walking down Park Avenue with Arthur Brisbane [onetime Hearst editor and partner-in-real-estate with his chief], and he pointed to a big piece of land and said, 'Marion, you should buy that; it will bring you $500,000 a year.' " The advice prompted Marion to start buying real estate, with funds from her Cosmopolitan Productions, the company that Hearst had set up to make...