Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamber of Deputies, owner of Le Petit Journal (Parisian daily); of heart disease; in Paris. Son of a railway crossing-keeper, he became a successful engineer and contractor, was employed at 23 by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to enlarge its trackage. With Alexandre Girod as partner he built an electric power station at Wagenthal near industrious Lille. Engineer Loucheur headed the Society of Electric Power of Paris, electrified the French, Italian, Russian and Turkish railways, built power plants and a railway in the Alps. At the outbreak of the War he became general director, then Minister of Munitions...
...about the warning. He was offered a better job with his boss's rival, but he was afraid of his boss. Finally he just let everything slide while he had a good time with Rosie. But on the next trip the truck was held up, his partner was shot. Frankie figured out that by the time he got back to Boston the gunmen would be after him as the only witness of the shooting, so he lay low for a few days. When he went back to Boston to see Rosie she had gone to Manhattan. When he heard...
...newshawks, he gave frequent interviews depicting the certainty of Democratic success in 1932. At a reunion dinner of the War Industries Board, which he had served as counsel, he was singled out for honorable presidential mention by the Board's onetime chairman and Democracy's silent partner, Bernard Mannes ("Berney") Baruch. By the time Governor Ritchie left New York for Pittsburgh to address the Third International Bituminous Coal Conference, his White House candidacy had grown to visible proportions...
Died. Sidney Loeb, 28, statistician, market-letter writer for E. F. Hutton & Co., Manhattan brokers, brother of Hutton Partner Gerald M. Loeb; after an automobile accident; in Prescott...
...with big appetites, a cold heart, a shrewd head, he took to low life like a hippopotamus to water. When he was sent to the State Legislature he refused to truckle to Pennsylvania Boss Matthew Stanley Quay. Quay was impressed, made Penrose first his protege, then his partner. The Penrose path was broad and easy: he ambled into the U. S. Senate, into the counsels of Big Republican Business, into the Republican National Committee. But the one thing he most wanted, the mayoralty of Philadelphia, he never got. Quay's enemies kept Penrose from the nomination (which meant...