Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enterprise, however, and holds that one responsible, avoids interfering, keeps close tabs. Nominally Dr. Crocker himself is responsible to a board of ten trustees on which sit Col. Thompson's widow, his daughter, who is Mrs. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., Frederick Hudson Ecker (Metropolitan Life) and Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont. Actually Dr. Crocker and Trustee-Business Manager Fred Pope, onetime Thompson employe, submit an annual budget which the board passes without too hard study...
...Legislature, bulldozed that body into accepting it. When, after six years, California's $2,000,000 deficit had been turned into an $8,000,000 surplus, Budgeteer Neylan had to borrow $1,000 to move his family back to San Francisco where he began practicing law. His first partner was Aaron Sapiro, who silenced Henry Ford's attacks on Jews. After a year he opened his own office, got as his first client Zellerbach Paper Co. which he had lashed unmercifully as Chairman of the Board of Control. Because he knew how to use them, power and wealth...
...novelty to U. S. cinema audiences, Go Into Your Dance is not likely to add to Warner Brothers' stature as the boldest experimenters in Hollywood. But. since both are legitimate embellishments for a story about an overconfident song-&-dance man regenerated by the good influence of a partner who keeps him sober and rescues him from the clutch of a gangster's wife (Helen Morgan), Go Into Your Dance is satisfactory entertainment of its school. Likeliest song hit: "About a Quarter to Nine...
...Head. Before his roistering House, Speaker Byrns would be completely at a loss without two arms that help to uphold the Head of the House. One of them is bland, supercilious Representative John J. O'Connor, Tammanyman and brother of Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner. Democrat O'Connor, as Chairman of the Rules Committee, has helped in part to make up for the absence of Leader Bankhead. Only trouble is that Chairman O'Connor is so willing to stiff-arm opposition that he is not overly beloved by the House...
Died. Henry Gottlieb Eckstein, 75, partner in the firm making Cracker Jack (candied popcorn), coiner of their slogan, "The More You Eat the More You Want"; in Ontario, Calif...