Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan & Co., General Motors, Goodyear and Firestone were in Teheran dickering to form a $2,000,000 "Persian-American Corp." Britons heard that this "American consortium" would "buy Persian products for American consumption" and "undertake a general program of industrialization for Persia." In Manhattan a Morgan partner flatly said that he "knew of no basis" for such reports, but by that time the House of Commons was seething over a so-called British ultimatum to Persia...
...newborn U. S. babe is now 60 years, up five whole years from 1922. While the insurance presidents were hearing these figures a plan was being shaped which may elevate a newcomer to power in the industry. He is Julius Howland Barnes, close friend and onetime business partner of Herbert Clark Hoover. Everybody knew who Mr. Barnes was in 1917 to 1919 when he sold the grain crops as head of the U. S. Food Administration Grain Corp., when he was Chairman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (1929-31) and when he headed the President's Business...
...Davis comes from a long line of Democrats. One of his five brothers, Ewin, is now the "lame duck" chairman of the House Merchant Marina, Radio & Fisheries committee. In 1902 Norman Davis went to Cuba, where in 15 years he made his fortune in banking, construction, dredging. His Havana partner was Tillinghast I'Hommedieu Huston, onetime Colonel in the Army Engineers, onetime part-owner of the New York Yankees...
...transport were really a poker game, Player Philbin would need a substantial stack of blue chips to back his express ace. They have been supplied by "strong financial interests." Three of the backers were learned last week: Chandler Hovey, socialite, yachtsman, senior partner in Kidder, Peabody & Co. (Wall Street investment house); Arthur S. Jackson, of Jackson Bros., Boesel & Co. (Chicago brokers) ; and Frank Phillips, petroleum tycoon whose gas & oil will fill the tanks of Air Express Corp.'s ships. First aide to President Philbin is his vice president in charge of traffic. James G. Woolley, a plump, profane hurricane...
Said onetime Film Actress Norma Talmadge, wife of Film Producer Joseph M. Schenck, denying reports that she had guaranteed the agreement of her vaudeville partner George Jessel to pay $100,000 to his recently divorced wife: ''With Mr. Jessel's ability to earn $10,000 a week, it seems ridiculous that anyone should be asked to guarantee a paltry $100,000 property settlement...