Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit Senator James Couzens, onetime Ford partner, offered to contribute $1,000,000 to the municipal relief fund provided the Mayor's Committee collected $9,000,000 from other private sources. Visiting his Iron Mountain, Mich, factory, Henry Ford laid down a new rule: "Next year every man with a family who is employed at the plant will be required to have a garden of sufficient size to supply his family with part of its winter vegetables. Those who do not comply with the rule will be discharged...
Originators and executors of the barter idea were two New York private bankers of the younger generation-William Henry Hamilton Jr. and his partner H. Charles Winans. Mr. Hamilton is Samuel Vauclain's widower son-in-law. Mr. Winans' wife is smart Novelist Katharine Brush (Glitter, Young Man of Manhattan). Both men used to be with Guaranty Trust Co. Partner Winans knew Brazil through having held a post there for White, Weld & Co. The idea of a direct barter between the U. S. and Brazilian Governments occurred to Banker Hamilton one evening last winter after a meeting...
...Partner Winans skillfully conducted the negotiations in Brazil, beginning several months ago. Secrecy was essential. Under the saucy nose of Empire Salesman Edward of Wales, under the noses of Argentines and Russians with mountains of wheat for sale or barter, secrecy was kept, the two partners and their friends communicating in code. At the last moment came a scare: the Russians, having traded wheat for Italian fruit, had the same idea. They would dump the coffee they received into the U. S. market instead of marketing it in an orderly way. U. S. coffee men who had been taken into...
...husband's campaigns she threw herself with all the force of her able intellect. She kept up his faith in himself and his cause through defeat and discouragement. She was, she boasted, more radical than he. As they aged, they even came to look alike. As his silent partner she exercised great influence over Wisconsin politics and he affectionately referred to her as "the counselor," fondly recalled "when we were Governor." She stumped for him during his Presidential canvass of 1924, made many a vote with her sound political sense. Stateswoman though she was, she would never accept public...
...Theodore T. ("Ted") Ellis, onetime publisher of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette, partner of Col. Knox in buying control of the Daily News from the Strong estate for (reputedly) $2,500,000. It was understood that Mr. Ellis supplied most of the cash (from a fortune estimated near $8,000,000). Knox & Ellis had the support of Rufus Cutler Dawes (brother of the Ambassador) and Chairman Joseph Edward Otis of the Dawes-controlled Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., both of whom were named directors of the News last week...