Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's great empire builders, a stocky, twinkly-eyed Senator with a warm sense of humor, an icy sense of duty and the charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought he was dead when they carried...
...flight by a British aviator from England into Europe. By flying 150 mi. into France he won a ?4,000 prize. In 1912 he formed Sopwith Aviation Co. Ltd. which produced the Camels, Pups and Dolphins flown by Allied pilots in the War. After the War he took as partner his longtime test-pilot Harry Hawker, who in 1919 attempted the first transatlantic flight and was picked out of the sea off Newfoundland. Their company, now named H. G. Hawker Engineering Co. Ltd., produces nearly half the planes currently flown by the Royal Air Force. His rich business enabled Builder...
Kermit Roosevelt, 44, able second son of the late great Theodore and founder-president of Roosevelt Steamship Co., was elected a director of Atlas Tack Corp. Elected at the same time was John Sargent, partner of President Roosevelt's eldest son James in the Lawson Insurance Agency of Boston...
...President heard his name so thoroughly praised in an A. F. of L. meeting. At the Cincinnati convention last year Labor had been in a stage described last week by President William Green as ''innocuous quietude." Since then, U. S. Labor had suddenly found itself a partner, somewhat dazzled but quick to take advantage of its new position, with Capital and Government in the New Deal. In Washington. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, in her cocky tricorn hat, rose to tell the A. F. of L. that "thanks to the vision and courage of President Roosevelt in making...
...lawyer and member of a distinguished family ("a Machray can do no wrong'") when huge shortages were turned up last year in the trust and endowment funds of his church and university. He pleaded guilty to stealing $500,000 from the university, $60,000 from a onetime law partner, was given a seven-year sentence by a magistrate who had been his friend for 25 years (TIME, Sept...