Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pullman porter on the Missouri Pacific. "Buffalo Bill" Cody set him up driving a stagecoach in Nebraska. He was a member of the distinguished horde of gold hunters in the Klondike. Tex Rickard, who used to call him "Little Britches," took him on as a business partner in a dance hall at Goldfield. Nev. Now aged 53, he owns real estate in half a dozen cities, is publisher of the Washington Eagle, goes to all the best races and prizefights, has been Grand Exalted Ruler for 13 years. For the President, however, he had time to deliver a personal invitation...
...admitted expenditures of $700,000 to defeat the Public Utility Bill were $92,000 short of the mark. Among those reported to have had A. G. & E. retainers: the law firms of Patrick J. Hurley, Herbert Hoover's Secretary of War, and of Basil O'Connor, onetime partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt and brother of House Rules Chairman John J. O'Connor, each...
...Goodrich shareholders. But to Cyrus Stephen Eaton, once-famed Cleveland banker and power tycoon, it became high treason the moment President Tew, in selecting the list of underwriters for the proposed issue, passed over the Cleveland investment house of Otis & Co. Cyrus Eaton used to be the principal partner in Otis & Co., which five years ago helped underwrite another Goodrich bond issue. Though Otis was reorganized and considerably deflated after the collapse of the Cleveland banker's fortunes in 1931, Eaton still maintains an office at the firm's Cleveland headquarters and takes a hand in its management...
...Jones and his directors stepped out of Public Utilities Securities and Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp. stepped in. Alert Investment Truster Odium had bought Utilities Power & Light debentures at bargain prices, watched them double in value. Since no holder of utility securities wants to have the Government as a partner, Mr. Odium was glad to ease RFC out last week by trading some of his Utilities Power & Light debentures for the securities held by Jesse Jones, thus giving Atlas Corp. working control of the system. Mr. Jones was also pleased because Utilities Power & Light bonds are at present paying interest...
...enjoyed the city but did not attend classes. When 19-year-old Miguel returned to New Mexico, armed warfare had broken out between the Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande Railroads, fighting for the Chicken Creek Route in strategic Raton Pass. Still quarreling with his father's partner, Miguel left the company, visited Denver, saw Leadville at the peak of its boom, became a member of the Chaffee Light Artillery of Colorado and served during the railroad strike of 1879, when the strikers took the roundhouse at Pueblo. Then he settled down, aged 20, to a quiet life...