Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having elected its Governors last week, the Tobacco Exchange announced that the trading floor at No. 90 Broad will open Sept. 19. Prime movers behind the latest addition to the lengthening list of commodity futures markets are President John Wesley Hanes, senior partner in Chas. D. Barney & Co., and First Vice President John L. Julian of Fenner & Beane. President Hanes may be a stockbroker by trade but he is a tobacco man by birth. His father helped found a big Winston-Salem tobacco company which was merged with R. J. Reynolds (Camels). After Yale (1915) and the War (Navy), "Johnny...
...tribute to women who governed by sense or sex was made by General Johnson's partner in the current contest, a slim ambitious miss who, a year before, had been an inconspicuous nobody at Democratic National Committee head quarters. Thinking more of her future than her past, NRAssistant Frances Robinson continued...
...free competition, tends to look askance on such measures. If his views are followed in reorganizing NRA, price-fixing may go by the boards, along with limitation of production, and suspension of the anti-trust laws. That, at least, is the direction of his inclinations and those of his partner, Madam Secretary Perkins...
...Court foreign correspondents are barred. "They don't understand!" tolerantly exclaims Dr. Rehn, who last week was happy to have as his guest a prominent U. S. attorney who would surely understand. With Nazi guards clicking out salutes, President Rehn showed William Ormonde Thompson, Clarence Darrow's onetime partner, all over the Court, now handsomely installed in Prussia's onetime Diet Building. He explained to Mr. Thompson how much better Nazi justice is than the justice it replaced. Take evidence, for example. "The need for factual evidence," Guest Thompson learned, "in many cases has been due to the erroneous reasoning...
...John Hancock turned $2,000,000 deficits into profits, used profits to pay off $4,500,000 of debts, made up a capital deficit and generally provided a shining example of what a conscientious banking house can do for an industrial client. In 1924 he became a very active partner in Lehman Brothers, and has since been Jewel's board chairman and a mighty hunter of mountain goats. Several years before that, he picked another onetime Navy officer, Commander Maurice H. Karker, to follow in his wake. President Karker paid off the $36.75 accumulations on the preferred stock...