Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime president of the American Bar Association and of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and a hard-bitten Republican critic of the New Deal, is senior partner of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn & Shaw. Short time ago Lawyer Strawn learned that the Black Committee had subpoenaed from Western Union copies of all telegrams sent or received by his firm between Feb. 1 and Dec. 1, 1935. Outraged, he promptly hired one of Washington's smartest lawyers, Frank J. Hogan, defender of Albert B. Fall, Edward L. Doheny, William P. MacCracken Jr. and Andrew...
...winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...
...late Speaker Nicholas Longworth's best jokes. Wayne Chatfield Taylor, his eldest son, who repudiates his father's lucrative hyphen, played on Yale's football team in 1915, held a job in Charles G. Dawes's late bank, for a time was a partner in Chicago's Field, Glore & Co., was appointed an executive assistant to George Peek in the early days...
...struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah Gammon told William Deering that his machine was better than any built by powerful old Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the reaper. William invested $40,000 in the concession, moved to Evanston, Ill., soon bought out his partner. In 1880 he soared to the top of the brawling harvester business with a twine binder which he picked up from one John F. Appleby. Twine binders did not cut into the wheat or, like wire binders, kill cattle that happened to eat a strand. Struggling little Northwestern University, founded...
...ailing milkwagon horse. The story that follows is what hundreds of similar farces have taught cinemaddicts to expect, but the gags are new and Director Leo McCarey keeps them sputtering across the screen at firecracker speed. Funniest scenes: Lloyd learning to box from MacFarland's tough sparring partner (Lionel Stander); teaching the dowager patron of a benefit bout how to duck a punch; knocking out Champion MacFarland, whose seconds have accidentally given him a sleeping potion just before the fight. It Had to Happen (Twentieth Century-Fox) is about a group of glossy New Yorkers who exist only...