Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they did not know what they asked for, they soon learned. Home went the 1,200, and on the Sabbath evening they heard the radio-borne voice of Franklin Roosevelt tell them that the Government was going to be a partner in their business. What form that partnership may take, no man. probably not even Franklin Roosevelt, could say. but every partnership has two sides: a side which offers help, a side which makes demands...
...prerogative of speaking for Allied Chemical except Orlando Franklin Weber. Allied's president, chairman, master. Mr. Weber, successful head of Allied, vast chemical combination since it was formed in 1920, is a man who holds his cards tight against his vest, smiles saturninely, plays with no partners, keeps his opponents at a respectful distance. Heavy of form, mellifluous of voice, he goes his own way, and has his own way: attends prizefights unknown to the mob, vents his economic theories among his industrial peers, takes no one into his con- fidence, and has many men under his domination...
...Warners' indignant employes to take the cut in the first place. He resigned (TIME, April 24) without demanding a settlement for his contract which had 4½ years to run, soon announced plans to form an independent producing company with Joseph Schenck, president of United Artists, for his partner. After the resignation, Warner Brothers changed their minds, agreed to pay salaries in full from April...
Died. Adelbert Ames, 97, last surviving Federal general of the Civil War, oldest West Point graduate (Class of 1861), long-time golf partner of John Davison Rockefeller; of old age; in Ormond Beach, Fla. He entered the Civil War a lieutenant, was a 29-year-old major general when it ended. For heroism in the first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor...
...grown wealthy and mighty during 30 years, floating the securities of companies that became great-Sears, Roebuck, General Cigar, Studebaker, Cluett Peabody, Woolworth, Endicott Johnson, Postum, Continental Can, May Department Stores, Pillsbury Flour, National Dairy Products, Goodrich Rubber, Lambert Pharmacal, Gimbel Brothers, Warner Brothers. Goldman Sachs had a bright partner named Waddill Catchings, Tennessee-born Harvard graduate who had been by successive and increasing turns lawyer, steelman and J. P. Morgan assistant in purchasing supplies for the Allies during the War. In December 1928 Mr. Catchings made history by launching for his firm, Goldman Sachs Trading Corp...