Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owes in good part to Jean Wiener, the friend who played the piano. Poet Jean Cocteau drifted into the bare little shop one day, heard Wiener play Bach, told others. Cocteau named the place Le Boeuf sur le Toil (The Bull on the Roof). Wiener soon afterward acquired a partner, one Clement Doucet who drifted into Le Boeuf to display an elaborate invention, part organ, part piano. The invention ir.ade slight impression on Wiener but Doucet's lazy, easy way of playing fascinated him. The pair went in for two-piano music, particularly for flowered transcriptions...
...possible things which may have been done wrong. Samples of these follow. No. 17. Form MV-51 must be approved by Stolen Car Section or person authorized by County Clerk to sign. No. 24. In the case of a co-partnership, Form MV-251 must be filled out. Each partner must enter his own name in his own handwriting, but any member must make the affidavit. An elected officer of a corporation must sign application or power of attorney furnished for any other person signing. No. 28. An owner who is unable to sign his name . . . and sign the application...
...length, stomping in great steps, Banker Di Luglio entered the Woonsocket offices. He went to the desk of Woonsocket President Francesco Galiano, 64, an elegant gentleman who had once been his partner, whose son had married a Di Luglio daughter. Banker Di Luglio had heard that Banker Galiano had said evil things about Dante State Bank. Whipping out a .32-cal. revolver he pulled the trigger four times. The gun did not go off. Banker Galiano grabbed for his own revolver, fired into the wall. Banker Di Luglio grabbed the gun away, bashed elegant Mr. Galiano in the head with...
Charles L. Woody Jr. was reinstated as a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He was suspended June 19, 1930 when his firm, Woody & Co., found itself insolvent because of the transactions of Partner Woody's Partner-brother-in-law Harold ("Night") Ryder. Creditors of Woody & Co. whose claims were more than $1,000 each received 45¢ on the dollar, those with smaller claims, 50?...
...began specializing in tea, developed his own plantations in Ceylon. His interests widened to include candy shops in London, ginger ale plants in Ireland, a slaughter house in Chicago. In 1898 his enterprise was incorporated, his fortune estimated at $50,000,000. His motto: "Never take a partner." When he was made a baronet in 1902, this changed to "Labor Omnia Vincit" ("Work conquers all") beneath a coat of arms with a crest showing two arms crossed, the horny hands clutching a sprig of tea plant, a sprig of coffee plant. All his life Sir Thomas loved ships, owned...