Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Bob Allen gave a helping hand to a friend when he got Paul C. Yates a job as executive assistant to his partner's father, Governor Paul Martin Pearson of the Virgin Islands. Paul Yates's behavior in that capacity curdled Bob Allen's friendship into the wrath which exploded in the Senate corridor last week.** Their fisticuffs were a fitting prelude to a solemn Senate investigation of Governor Pearson's administration...
...mentions the fact that after he received an appointment to Annapolis, at the age of 15, he escaped to St. Louis, made his father's agents there return him to the West. He worked in his father's commission house but quarreled with his father's partner, learned to dance,, hunted buffalo and antelope, raced horses and greyhounds, was shot at in Chilili for having monopolized a girl at a party...
...professional, hired Jack Blackburn, famed old Philadelphia lightweight, to be his trainer. For his first professional fight, in Chicago's Bacon's Arena just a year ago, Joe Louis received $59. For last week's bout he got $44,600, of which Manager Roxborough and his partner, a Chicago Negro real-estate broker named Julian Black, get one-third. In his first professional fight, Louis knocked out a third-rater named Jack Kracken in the first round. Since then, he has had 21 fights, won 17 of them by knockouts, four by decision. Training for his bout...
...decision. Banker Field replied: "Well, what would you do if you were in my position?" To others he explained that he was leaving to devote more time to his "many outside activities." Field, Glore & Co. will continue to use Banker Field's name, will be managed chiefly by Partner Glore...
Catherine was the second of three daughters; her mother was a long-suffering woman who shared her daughters' adoration for their father, a wife-beating drunkard who had brought back a wooden leg from the war. As the children grew up, the eldest became a zealous partner in her father's milk business, but the two younger ones, Catherine and Angele, each dreamed of the boy who was to marry her some day. At last he came, disguised as an old toymaker. Thereafter he appeared in various guises, but he finally turned out to be the long-lost...