Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was time for him to come out of his hole. With Poland all but conquered, his Axis partner, Adolf Hitler, was free to help him if he talked tough to the Allies. But Partner Hitler had taken on another partner, Joseph Stalin; with him had carved Poland in two and threatened all the Balkans, where Italy has "vital interests." It was against every historical precedent for Italy to let Germany and Russia get away with the Balkans, but, on the other hand, if Germany knocked out Britain and France, Italy could clean up in the Mediterranean. Foxy...
...Negro aviatrices holding a limited commercial license, she has labored mightily to whip up interest in flying among Negroes, get them a share in C. A. A.'s training program. She runs Brown's Lunch Room at Harlem Airport near Chicago, is partner in a flying service there. White people are sometimes surprised when they find her piloting them on pleasure hops ($1 for 10 minutes). She hopes to get an instructor's rating in the spring, teach flying at some Negro school certified...
...Press casualty of the week in London was William Burton Burton-Baldry's pithy two-page financial tipsheet, the Fortnightly Review. Editor Burton-Baldry, senior partner in a London brokerage house, had said in July: "War is not only unlikely, but almost impossible." With markets disrupted by an improbable war, the Fortnightly Review suspended publication "till the 'all clear' signal sounds...
...still in short pants, he got a job with McNish, Johnson & Slavin's Refined Minstrels, singing A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother. This job was the making of him. He became a protege of the late, bully-built William Muldoon (later T.R.'s sparring partner), who was then touring the minstrel circuit with Charley Mitchell, the little man who wouldn't stay down for the great John L. Sullivan. Joe learned to box (well enough to claim the bantamweight championship in 1886, and troupe later with Bob Fitzsimmons); and he learned the tricks...
...Davis Cup Captain Walter Pate selected 20-year-old Joe Hunt and 18-year-old Jack Kramer. It was a last-minute, panic choice. Gene Mako, who had teamed brilliantly with Don Budge in three previous Cup matches, had proved to be a chump with any other partner, and Bobby Riggs & Elwood Cooke (who were good enough to win the Wimbledon Doubles championship this summer) were trounced by Quist & Bromwich in the U. S. Doubles fortnight...