Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this important post there are two serious contenders. One is Tammany's John Joseph O'Connor of Manhattan, brother of Franklin Roosevelt's former law partner, 13 years a member of Congress, chairman of the all-important Rules Committee. During the last Congress Representative Bankhead, then Leader, was ill so much that Mr. O'Connor handled the duties of Leader for weeks at a time. When Speaker Byrns suddenly died in the last days of the session, Mr. Bankhead was promptly elected to succeed him, but the stormy question of whether Mr. O'Connor should...
During a "hot jam," Frenchman Emile Ignat, who was being relieved by his partner, Frenchman Emile Diot, gave Diot such an enthusiastic starting push that Diot's wheel wobbled and Ignat ran into it, spilling them both. It was the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, around an O-shaped pine-board track, with 15 teams of two men each dressed in bright jerseys, pedaling in relays on bicycles that cost $100, weigh 19 Ib. After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided...
...Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last week Samuel Fleisher's Olympics were simultaneously taken up by two good businessmen: President George Howard Johnson of Philadelphia's big Lit Brothers department store, and a onetime Morgan partner, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania...
Walter Biddle Saul, member of the Board of Education, partner in Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, counsel for Philadelphia Co. as well as for such bigtime Philadelphia enterprises as John Wanamaker and John B. Stetson. Said he: "I was and still am proud of the work which my office and I did in connection with the reorganization of Philadelphia...
Down cracked SEC last week with a restraining order on eight individuals for alleged manipulation of Suburban Electric Securities Co. on the Boston Stock Exchange. Down cracked SEC on the big New York Stock Exchange house of W. E. Hutton & Co. and an Oakland (Calif.) partner of William Cavalier & Co. for alleged manipulation of Atlas Tack, a luckless stock whose gyration once attracted the attention of the New York Attorney General (TIME, Jan. 1, 1933). In that operation Atlas was strong-armed from a Depression low of $1 per share to a 1933 high of nearly $35, only to relapse...