Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 59, president of the American Red Cross, longtime Eisenhower Chief of Staff, friend and bridge partner. Highly successful in his own right as one of Ike's successors in NATO, West Pointer ('19) Gruenther has only one thing working against him: West Pointer ('15) Eisenhower is reluctant to have a Secretary of State who is also a retired military professional...
...escape a World War II Japanese concentration camp. The war over, Guterma flowered as a trader, also obtained a bankroll from Philippine and Italian businessmen, which he brought to Florida in 1950 to start a project growing flaxlike ramie fiber. He then moved to Manhattan and with a partner opened McGrath Securities, a firm that often floated stock in his new companies...
Fisk differed from other robber barons in that he looked the part and played it with scandalous ebullience. Skinny, gloomy Partner Drew was a Bible banger who would retreat to his house, bar the doors and pray; but Jim Fisk was fat and jolly as a carnival pig. Part of his share of the shareholders' money was devoted to his mistress, Actress Josie Mansfield, while other spoils went to buying and renovating Pike's Opera House on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue for the company's head offices; there business mixed with pleasure in the form...
White entered the field of investment counseling with a firm in Boston after completing his studies at the University. Presently, he is senior partner with Scudder, Stevens & Clark, a director of the Wall Street Journal, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a trustee of Norwich University in Vermont...
...years later he packed off for Los Angeles, saved enough money jerking sodas to take flying lessons. He soloed in seven hours, became a partner in a flying school, coolly gambled with death by stunt flying for Hollywood movies. Soon Frye and two pals bought a single-engined Fokker, set up Standard Air Lines, one of the first in the nation, to lift Hollywood stars from Los Angeles to their desert hideaways...