Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most likely to succeed him is W. Willard Wirtz, who would be glad to move from the Labor Department to the most important domestic Cabinet job. Wirtz, an old law partner of Adlai Stevenson and widely respected labor lawyer, has gained Johnson's friendship in the past months as speech coordinator for the Presidential campaign. A quiet, droll liberal, Wirtz would appeal to the Kennedy team but would not alienate the South...
...Investment Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, senior partner in Manhattan's Goldman Sachs & Co. and once a director of 35 companies (he has cut it to six), all this corporate tolerance is no laughing matter. Annual meetings are becoming a "circus," says Weinberg, thanks to "publicity-seeking characters who attend primarily to ask impertinent, irrelevant, sometimes abusive questions. This kind of behavior must be stopped right now, before stockholders lose respect for management. The vast majority of stockholders resent these characters. I was delighted when many companies that dispensed free lunches and free products at meetings stopped...
Following his identification by the teenager, Smith called Gallagher aside, according to the Cambridge officer, and said, "I'll give you $100 if you squash this." Gallagher said the bribe offer was then repeated in the presence of his partner...
...blame Adman Culligan. "Joe Culligan," said he, "is a great guy to know-after 5:30." Blair succeeded in selling this view to Marvin Kantor, one of two new men placed on Curtis' board by a group of Wall Street investors in 1962. Kantor had been a partner in J. R. Williston & Beane, the brokerage firm that was shattered last December after tankfuls of vegetable oils, supposed to be one of its principal assets, proved to be nonexistent...
...instance, begins: "Larry Actaeon was built along classical lines . . ." and the reader, with the help of a mythological dictionary, recalls that Actaeon observed Diana at her bath and was punished by being turned into a stag and torn apart by hounds. All too patly, Larry Actaeon sees a lady partner in his investment-banking firm naked in the office of an associate and later that day is killed by his own savage dogs. But the precision with which the story follows the outlandish myth obscures its point, which is that there are edges over which even investment bankers may tumble...