Word: partnered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cohn was different. He bounced right back to New York, where, as a bachelor, he still shares a seven-room Park Avenue apartment with his widowed mother. He became a partner in a highly successful law firm and began looking for what he has called "the sweet deal"-high finance. Borrowing $900,000 from Hong Kong and Panamanian moneylenders, he gathered control of the flagging Lionel Corp. (toy trains, electronics, etc.) in 1959. For a while Lionel picked up, but it fell back again, losing a whopping $4,500,000 in 1962 alone. Entrepreneur Cohn also bought a swimming pool...
...perhaps the world's-best tennis amateur. McKinley followed up Wimbledon with a slamming defense of his national clay courts championship, an off-form loss to Mexico's Rafael Osuna in the American Zone semifinal Davis Cup matches, and a quick comeback win over Osuna's partner, Antonio Palafox...
...houses in 1941. It helped in the long campaign to regain the public's trust in the financial community by putting its salesmen on flat salaries, eliminating carrying charges on accounts, and pioneering in informative advertising. When Mike McCarthy, a former grocery-chain consultant, took over as managing partner in 1957, he found the firm's old partnership setup as unwieldy as its name. He revamped Merrill Lynch into an incorporated brokerage house whose stock is now divided among 419 shareholders, the majority of whom are officers or employees. Last year's profits: $12 million...
...threats into acts of war." As for the U.N., which two weeks earlier called anew for curtailment of arms to Portugal, he saw the "massive entry" of Afro-Asian states as having distorted the world organization into a threat to peace. And in a bitter jab at his NATO partner, the U.S., which has been urging Portugal to decolonize, Salazar accused Washington of competing with Russia in Africa, principally for spheres of political influence and markets...
...both Writer Graham and the Post, Burnett's memory seemed more than enough to go on. Neither bothered to go over the story with Wally Butts or Bear Bryant-on the grounds that they would only deny it. Nor did anyone consult Burnett's sometime business partner, John Carmichael, who said he knew all about the intercepted phone call and had seen the notes. No one at the Post deemed it necessary to study moving pictures of the Georgia-Alabama game -which might have supported, or cast serious doubt on the suspicion that the game had been fixed...