Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John's College, sworn him in as a Special Assistant Attorney General. From Augusta. Ga. went lean, firm-principled Federal District Judge William Hale Barrett to preside. The Government registered 150 witnesses. Chief defense counsel was a local attorney named Hugh M. Wilkinson, loud-voiced onetime law partner of Huey Long. According to intimates, he was Defendant Shushan's second choice, picked on Long's personal orders...
...Briton Hadden (cofounder of TIME, died 1929) ; suddenly, of pneumonia following acute appendicitis; at Glen Cove, N. Y. Since his brother's death a director of TIME Inc., Crowell Hadden went from Princeton (1917) into the War (1st Lieut., 106th Field Artillery, 27th Division), became in 1930 a partner of J. E. Aldred & Co. (New York bankers...
Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds of First National and Morgan Partner George Whitney had a more immediate objection: they thought that with the current low estate of rails they would have a pauper's hard time selling a 4% Central bond, conversion feature or no. Moreover, by selling the bonds as Mr. Jones suggested, they hinted that he was tricking them into "an underwriting . . . forbidden by [New Deal] law." And, listing all the other objections they could think of, together with a counterproposal (put both bank and RFC loans on a six-month-notice basis), Messrs. Reynolds & Whitney wrote...
...bankers who bid to protect themselves. At a tall desk with clerks and calculating machines stood Col. Leonard P. Ayres, Cleveland Trust Co.'s vice president-economist who bid in behalf of Mid-American Corp., especially chartered last week as the new top Van Sweringen holding company. Morgan Partner George Whitney was there with Morgan lawyers. Conspicuously absent was old bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, who has been built up in the Press as a likely Van Sweringen rival. And toward the rear was the iron-grey head of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen. Brother Mantis James did not attend...
Biographies by Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine; Swinburne; Curzon) have been characterized by careful scholarship, an almost ostentatious avoidance of partisan feeling, a mood of suppressed irony. These qualities are all revealed in his biography of Dwight Whitney Morrow, lawyer, Morgan partner, Ambassador to Mexico, Senator from New Jersey, whose life receives at Harold Nicolson's hands an intelligent and exhaustive review such as few U. S. capitalists have enjoyed. Beginning with an apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized...