Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's brisk, bouncing Representative John J.. O'Connor, elder brother of Franklin Roosevelt's former law partner Basil O'Connor, led the House fight which killed the President's Reorganization Bill so enthusiastically that last week his picture adorned the cover of Social Justice. This paper is edited under the guidance of Father Charles Coughlin, whom Mr. O'Connor two years ago was promising to kick publicly from the Capitol to the White House. Last week, the Reorganization fight over, Franklin Roosevelt invited Mr. O'Connor to the White House...
...whose 28 years of age precisely equalled the period Mr. Lamont has worked for J. P. Morgan & Co.) why he had told nobody about it when he learned last November that Broker Richard Whitney was not only insolvent but also guilty of using customers' funds illegally. When his partner, George Whitney, came to him to borrow $1,082,000 to help his brother Dick "out of a jam," explained Mr. Lamont. "I moved as my heart dictated." It did not occur to him that it was in any way his responsibility to inform the Exchange or anybody else-even...
...point in his testimony, Mr. Lamont became so upset that he made a reference to "my brother, George Whitney," but corrected himself with a gesture of annoyance, saying he meant "my partner...
...relentlessly pushed its investigation of the Richard Whitney failure, the famed name of Thomas W. Lament for the first time entered the case. Testifying in Washington, Morgan-Partner George Whitney revealed that he had borrowed from Morgan-Partner Lamont the $1,082,000 which he loaned his brother Richard last November to enable him to return securities of the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund. Said he: "I told him [Lamont] that my brother was in a jam. ... I told him the general terms." Thus added to the record was the name of the second Morgan partner who was in a position...
...bicycle trip from Uganda to the French Cameroons. A British soldier, he won a farm in Kenya in a lottery after the War, ran it for ten years, with intermissions of mountain climbing, big game hunting, gold mining. As a coffee planter he made a classic pact with his partner ("that master and man should not both get drunk on the same day"). He made a trip across Africa by bicycle...