Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortas left the Government in 1946 to become a law partner of ex-F.D.R. Trustbuster Thurman Arnold. The two were joined by former Federal Communications Commission Chairman
...Equal Partner. Not all of the troublesome economic currents are transatlantic. In Washington two weeks ago, a delegation of Japanese Cabinet members jolted U.S. Cabinet members by demanding, in effect, that the U.S. begin treating Japan as an equal partner in economic matters. The visitors stiffly turned down U.S. requests for a lowering of Japanese tariffs against U.S. goods and restrictions against U.S. investments. They also declined a U.S. invitation to contribute to a billion-dollar aid program for Southeast Asia, rejected the U.S. suggestion that they withhold long-term credits from Communist China...
Though nothing was bought for Lament's personal account, the Securities and Exchange Commission has charged that Lamont took advantage of his insider's information (TIME, April 30). That is a damaging accusation against the son of J. P. Morgan's late partner, Thomas W. Lamont, and a prominent Wall Street personality in his own right. In addition, the SEC seeks to have Lamont "make restitution" to the shareholders from whom Morgan Guaranty bought its stock-that is, pay them what they would have earned had they held on longer. A U.S. district court would assess...
...barely escaped serving a jail term for usury, supplied money to both Vanderbiit and Gould in their battle for control of the Erie Railroad, netted $10 million in ten days during the Panic of 1873, and most important, acquired the brilliant, heaviIy indebted Gould as front man and junior partner...
Many business and government leaders today fear that Australia's beneficent role as a major Asian power could be seriously diminished if other democratic nations such as Japan-which has now replaced Britain as Australia's biggest trading partner-come to resent the all-white continent as a racist preserve-which it is not. Declares Melbourne Mining Tycoon Sir Maurice Mawby: "We must live by geography today, not history...