Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threw down his milk bucket and went to Grinnell College. When he returned to farming it was as an owner. But every time he thought of the newspaper business his left eye twitched with excitement (a habit he still retains) and finally he got a partner to manage his Iowa farm and went to Redfield, S. Dak. (pop. 2,664) to edit a newspaper. At 30 he was made editor and manager of the influential Montana Farmer at Great Falls...
...Manhattan brokerage house of Weicker & Co. announced it would take a new partner on Jan. 2: Francis Warren Pershing, 24, only son of General John, J. Pershing. His qualifications: a degree from Sheffield Scientific School, 1931 (voted "most likely to succeed"); a year spent selling crushed stone for New York Trap Rock Corp.; several months "connected" with Weicker & Co.; a third share in the $819,000 estate of his late famed grandsire, the venerable Senator Francis Warren of Wyoming...
...Peek, like NRA's General Johnson with whom he was once a partner in the Moline Plow Co., is rated a "Baruch man." Ever since President Roosevelt gave him the AAA he has been fighting clear of the Braintrusters who stood close to Mr. Wallace in the Department of Agriculture-Assistant Secretary Tugwell, Columbia professor, and AAA Counsel Jerome Frank, disciple of Felix Frankfurter. They favored restricting production, holding down the profits of processors and distributors. Their aim was not just recovery for the farmers but a radical step: permanent "socialization" of the processing and distributing business. When they...
...Hamilton in 1801, has changed hands many times. The last time was in 1923 when white-thatched Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, richest of U. S. publishing merchandisers, marched up from Philadelphia and bought it from a Wall Street syndicate which had acquired it only the year before from Morgan Partner Lamont. For years the Evening Post, for all its fine tradition, had been a money-loser. Briefly after 1923 it looked as if Publisher Curtis might succeed where Wall Street had failed. Through Son-in-law John Charles Martin, Mr. Curtis poured money lavishly into the Evening Post, gave...
...which one Edwin F. Atkins Jr., a U. S. planter in Cuba, had been lost. Friends of the planter identified the shark's meal. For years thereafter whenever a person asked him the old question, "Will sharks eat human beings?" Sharkman Young produced a photograph of his partner standing in front of the disemboweled shark, holding the Atkins human arm. Last fortnight that sickening picture, with many another, was reproduced in Sharkman Young's garrulous, rambling fisherman's book Shark! Shark!, set down for him by Horace S. Mazet...