Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joshua Abraham Norton, an English Jew, came to San Francisco from South Africa during the '49 gold rush. In 1853 he and a partner tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part...
With a balance of $3,600,000 remaining due on the $9,000,000 J. P. Morgan & Co. loan to Cuba, Partner Thomas S. Lament was in Havana last week. He seemed to set off no fireworks by proposing to the Mendieta Government repayment at the rate of $900,000 each July 1. Fortnight ago all Cuba cheered a Government commission which cracked down on Chase National Bank by advising President Mendieta to repay nothing on Chase's share of $60,000,000 worth of bonds floated in the U. S.-advice as to which the President prudently made...
...charges against NRA the Darrow Board had not escaped personal losses. Of the six original Board members, only four were left. John F. Sinclair, New York financial writer, had resigned because the first report was too radical. William Ormonde Thompson, old-time labor mediator and onetime law partner of Clarence Darrow, resigned because the second report was not radical enough. He had expected the Board to flay NRA for its failure to make famed Section 7 (a) the infallible collective bargaining weapon for which it was intended. "Step by step," said he, in a long denunciatory message to President Roosevelt...
...interest payments on the Dawes & Young loans continue to be made in Ger many in marks into trustee accounts from which payment to the creditors may ultimately be made. Chancellor Hitler, with the simple directness of supreme demagogery, blamed everything in his Volkischer Beobachter upon a Morgan Partner, sandy-haired Seymour Parker Gilbert who was Agent General for Reparations Payments (1924-30) before he received a partner's desk at No. 23 Wall St. "The former Agent General," cried Herr Hitler's mouthpiece, " bears the bulk of responsibility for foreign creditors' disappointments. . . . Germany's declaring...
...nearly every big law office in the land one morning last week at least one partner sat watch in hand, fidgeting for high noon, E. S. T. At precisely that hour President Roosevelt signed the Corporate Bankruptcy Bill. The exact minute of enactment was important because the new law instructed Federal judges to consider all bankruptcy petitions in the order received. The President wanted each & every prostrate U. S. corporation to have the same opportunity to rise and pray for cheap relief...