Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister to the court of Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, President Roosevelt appointed his onetime law partner, Grenville Temple Emmet of Manhattan, great-grandnephew of famed, executed Irish Patriot Robert Emmet...
George Emlen Roosevelt and his brother Philip James, fifth in the direct line of Founder Jacobus, and another partner "will continue the business of managing investments and other property, including the collection of income and the reinvestment of principal, and of acting as custodians of securities." They will perpetuate the old firm's name...
...production, and Standard Oil had production but lacked markets, new Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. will have both. ¶It was news last October when Atlas Tack Corp. announced that it had started to make bottle-caps. It was news when Kermit Roosevelt and John Sargent, the insurance partner of James Roosevelt, took seats on the Tack board. It was news last week when the Tack directors voted to split the stock three-for-one. Next day Tack stock tumbled from $34.75 a share to $21. Rumors flew thick that the Tack pool had been punctured...
...great brontosaurus of American industry, U. S. Steel Corp., was brought into existence by the mighty financial hand of the original J. P. Morgan. Today, as from its beginning, Morgan men sit prominently on the board of U. S. Steel. Last week one more Morgan man, not a partner but a son of the House, was chosen to help mold the destinies of Steel. His name is Edward Riley Stettinius and he has, by reputation, the driving power of a locomotive...
...original Edward Riley Stettinius was a matchmaker (president of Diamond Match) from St. Louis who was picked by the House of Morgan to buy supplies for the Allies before the U. S. entered the War. He did so well that in 1916 he was made a Morgan partner. He, too, was known as a driver. After the U. S. entered the War he became one of Bernard Baruch's big right hands in getting U. S. War supplies, and later Assistant Secretary of War. When he died in 1925, he left a widow with a "show place" at Locust...