Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coronation next May should be "commanded" (invited) to have audience of new King George in Buckingham Palace also arose last week. The late King George had no personal friends of U. S. nationality. As a rule, in the case of "Americans," he gave audience only to Morgan partners. In the last year of his reign, excepting U. S. diplomats on official missions, George V audienced just two "Americans," Morgan Partner Morgan and Morgan Partner Lamont. King Edward VIII, again excepting U. S. diplomats, accorded audience during his reign to no U. S. citizen- an amazing fact, revealing the grip which...
Spiciest bit was a memorandum found in the files of George F. Baker, Chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, which Senator Wheeler read into the rec ord. It related a telephone conversation in March 1935 in which Harold Stanley, then a Morgan partner, told a vice president of the First National that "the Van Sweringens, heretofore having drawn no salaries from the enterprises and for some time having been living on their insurance, are up against it to provide for living expenses. They estimate their joint require ments to be $150,000 a year, the principal items being...
Before adjourning the hearings until after the turn of the year, Senator Wheeler summoned Morgan Partner George Whitney to explain a loan made to MOP by the big banking house at No. 23 Wall Street. At the time RFC was being organized, MOP needed $1,500,000 to tide it over an interest date, and the House of Morgan, already a large MOP creditor, furnished the money on condition that it would be repaid promptly from the road's RFC borrowings...
Navin, Briggs and Kelsey became good friends, and when Mr. Navin's partner died in 1918 Walter Briggs, president of Briggs Mfg. Co., and John Kelsey, who had built up Kelsey Wheel Co., each bought a quarter interest in the Tigers, but allowed Navin full control of the club...
...found five rich mines, got almost nothing for them. When he found The Bullfrog in 1904 a saloon keeper kept him drunk for three weeks, got him to sell his claim for $1,000 and three barrels of whiskey. When he found The Harrisburg soon after he became a partner in the company formed to work it, taking stock which he did not know was assessable. Author Coolidge hired Shorty Harris to guide him across the Valley to Death Valley Scotty's ranch. Shorty ran true to tradition by getting lost. They traveled hard all day, made...