Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been adopted as Cabinet policy and he has lost his fight in camera, he dutifully buttons his tight little mouth together and only his closest friends ever hear how he felt about the matter. Personally he is fond of Franklin Roosevelt, takes this attitude: "I'm the silent partner in the firm of Roosevelt & Garner. The Chief does all the talking for the firm." And while Partner Roosevelt is talking. Partner Garner, as a loyal party-man who has voluntarily suspended his judgment as a statesman, is getting in better backstage political licks for the Administration than any Vice...
...autocrat who held Russia with a firm hand, Catherine was democratic to a degree in her imperial household. If her enraged whist partner threw his cards at her feet, she would merely call the onlookers to witness that she had played her hand right. Once when she had an urgent letter to send and all her bell-pealing brought no servant, she found the lackeys busy playing cards, offered to take one of the men's hands while he went out to post the letter. She loved to laugh, and her guffaw was famous. But nothing suggestive ever roused...
...bottomless swamp on the Detroit River, thereby confounding more orthodox steelmen who for more than engineering reasons freely predicted that his mills would sink out of sight. When Mr. Fink called with his friends last autumn, the Kuhn, Loeb doors were open. Inside, the triumvirate was greeted by Partner Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced straws), who is something of an authority on the steel industry and the specialist- insofar as Kuhn, Loeb has specialists-in industrial financing...
Raised in Richmond, Va. where his father was a merchant, Partner Strauss was an aide-de-camp to Herbert Hoover in France and Belgium during the War. What is more he is still a stanch Hoover friend and admirer. The late Mortimer Schiff met Mr. Strauss in Paris, asked him to work for Kuhn, Loeb. He was made a partner in 1929 at the age of 33. Like many a past Kuhn, Loeb partner who was not the son of a partner, Partner Strauss married a partner's daughter-in this case Jerome Hanauer's Alice...
...three Weirton wisemen have been dropping in on Partner Strauss for the last few months whenever they were in Manhattan. Last week the result of their conversations was dispatched to Washington as a registration statement for $50,000,000 of 4% National Steel bonds. About $40,000,000 of the proceeds will be used to pay off other bonds bearing higher coupons, the $10,000,000 balance representing new capital for expansion of the Detroit plant...