Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most independent. Nominally a Republican, he has given vast aid and comfort to the New Deal in the last three years. Up for renomination in the September primary, Senator Couzens is opposed by Michigan's onetime Governor Wilbur M. Brucker. Refusing to campaign for his seat, the onetime partner of Henry Ford went off for a yacht cruise, remarking: "I don't intend to compete with Brucker. If the people are dissatisfied with my work, I shall be content to stand aside." Back in Detroit last week, rich and radical Senator Couzens seemed to cut his own Republican...
Striking aid came to Senator Harrison from Senator Bilbo's one-time law partner, Stuart C. ("Sweep Clean") Broom, with a speech which brought down the house wherever he delivered it. Boomed Lawyer Broom: ''I am a professor in the Bilbo school of politics; I can read his shorthand notes; I know his tactics. I am a Bilbo man and have always supported him, and when he is a candidate for re-election in 1940 and Conner is his opponent-and he will be as sure as there is a hound dog in Georgia- I will...
Last week Leo Belden was a Wall Street stock broker and Elisha Walker was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb, while "A. P." Giannini was once again busy spreading his banking empire over the western U. S., which is legally kinder to branch banking than any other section. In 1931 he accepted the loss of his Manhattan bank, concentrated on bringing little Western banks into the fold of San Francisco's great Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association (with 447 California branches) and Portland's First National Bank (with 28 Oregon branches). Two years ago Transamerica edged eastward...
Most ominous accusation came from Senator William Gibbs McAdoo's law partner, Colonel William Haynie Neblett, a policyholder. He charged that directors of old Pacific Mutual had dictated Governor Frank Finley Merriam's appointment of Commissioner Carpenter for the specific purpose of handling the reorganization, that the reorganization was part of a conspiracy by officers of old Pacific Mutual now in the new company to get control of Pacific Mutual assets...
Thereupon The Moon's No Fool leaves its practical moorings as Ben experiences nightmarish visions where friends are all enemies; where the Queen is successively a prostitute, a torch-singer, a dancing partner, a captive; where his fashionable companions turn into policemen and thugs who are chasing him everywhere; where his beloved changes her being whenever he tries to embrace her. Thereupon, too, The Moon's No Fool takes on its elusive moral tone as Author Matthews suggests the evil consequences and addled wits that follow from self-deception and acceptance of worldly standards. Ben is saved from...