Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of his friends at lawn tennis, he belongs to the New York Racquet Club, plays court-tennis there and at the $250,000 court which Payne Whitney built at Manhasset and on which Payne Whitney died in 1927. Ogden Phipps's grandfather was Andrew Carnegie's partner, Henry Phipps...
...Lord Llangattock, precociously demonstrated his electrical ability by rigging up an apparatus in his mother's bedroom so that the moment she sat in her favorite armchair the room would burst into light. Plump Lady Llangattock sat down so hard she squashed the switch, blew out a fuse. Partner Frederick Henry Royce, struggling against youthful poverty, had no time for pranks. A modest builder of electrical cranes in Manchester, he had just gone to bed in a cheap London hotel one night in 1903 when Mr. Rolls burst in and introduced himself as a salesman of French cars. Each...
...Candidate Alfred E. Smith. When Herbert Hoover refused him southern patronage Mann turned against him. tried to block Hoover's renomination. In 1933 Mr. & Mrs. Mann were converted to Catholicism. ¶Died. Mrs. Helen Phipps Martin, wife of Financier Bradley Martin; daughter of the late Henry Phipps. Carnegie partner; daughter-in-law of the hostess of the famed "$1,000.000 goldplate" dinner which aroused the protests of pastors and reformers in 1910; after an appendectomy; in Pasadena. ¶Died- Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia, 75, Dowager Queen of The Netherlands, mother of Queen Wilhelmina; of bronchitis; at The Hague. After...
...raucous battles of the market place. Occasionally they had backed opposing forces but always with the fine disinterestedness of a French munitions maker. More often than not they acted in harmony to keep the peace. The present head of the House of Schiff was a Kuhn, Loeb partner when he inherited his father's 13% interest. This interest is smaller than that of his uncle, Felix Warburg (18%), or of Otto Kahn (14%). But in capital contributed he stands first with $6.500,000. John Schiff also inherits the bigger share of his father's fortune, estimated...
...pleading. Plain readers will rate it a first-class indictment, a second-class novel. The Oppermann family of Berlin had come through the War and post-War years with colors never below half-mast. In 1932 they considered themselves well and truly fixed as German citizens. Gus- tav, senior partner in the family furniture business, was a 50-year-old bachelor who enjoyed most moments of his ordered life. A connoisseur of women, art and literature, he frequented his club and the theatre and left the running of the business mostly to his brother Martin. Edgar was a world-famed...