Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corliss Lament, second son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, who used to rate himself "a critical Communist sympathiser," told a Manhattan audience: "We will use violence if necessary to reach the Socialist goal." He predicted the U. S. would be under a Communist government in 25 years...
...bears his name, was far too busy last week to pay attention to all this. Other arms tycoons have their hobbies: postage stamps, hybrid tea roses, Louis Seize furniture, after-dinner speeches about peace. Making money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very active partner in the London brokerage house of Vickers D'Acosta. Fourteen months ago a munitions scandal shook Rumania. Army officers were charged with having accepted bribes to throw arms contracts to the great Czecho-slovak firm of Skoda. One of them committed suicide, others went to jail and the Skoda...
...dissolution of a copartnership, whose members-James Roosevelt, the President's eldest son, Douglas Lawson and John A. Sargent-did business as general life insurance agents. At the time of the announcement Son James was in Cleveland with his wife dedicating a swimming pool for crippled children. Said Partner Lawson: "We put together the partnership in February 1933, and after a little more than a year we mutually decided we should dissolve. It just did not work as we had hoped." On the South portico of the White House the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, surprised...
...above information is derived from sources which we believe reliable but is not guaranteed." As all member firms must, Frazier Jelke had to submit Thomas Jefferson's text to the Stock Exchange's business conduct committee for approval before it could be run as an advertisement. Partner Victor G. Paradise declared that he expected Washington charges of "propaganda...
Drillers of Cleveland Petroleum Corp., burrowing in the apple orchard of U. S. Senator John G. Townsend Jr. and partner near Bridgeville, Del., struck oil. They packed up some samples, drove co town. One look at the sticky, black brew was enough to send real estate men scurrying to their telephones. Mortgage-ridden farmers soon heard tales of fabulous land prices. One who had been trying to sell his plot for a few hundred dollars was offered $1,500. "I wouldn't take $4,000 for it now," said he. Storekeepers got ready to pitch hot dog stands near...