Word: partners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Publisher de Graff was left the money with which he helped start Pocket Books by his great-uncle, Robert Fair, onetime business partner of Marshall Field's grandfather...
...cotillion "was the main event of the ball, beginning at midnight, after supper. Your partner's first act was to secure a pair of chairs by tying them together with a handkerchief. These were all placed around the ballroom in front of the benches reserved for chaperons and unlucky girls who had no partners. The leader of the cotillion had absolute powers; his word was law. He rarely took a partner, and so was free to direct the dancing. At a signal from him, a certain number of couples-six, ten, twelve, as the case might be-danced through...
...statement was supported by other even stronger statements that in any case Willkie would not have voted for Roosevelt. Said Brother Fred Willkie: "I think he eventually would have come out for Dewey." Last week, the most complete testimony was given by Carl M. Owen, Willkie's law partner. Said Partner Owen: "I can say most emphatically that under no conditions would he have supported the Roosevelt Administration...
...Commonwealth. One of his ancestors was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Endicott, who hanged Nonconformist Quakers, but was the friend of Nonconformist Roger Williams. Another was Joseph Peabody, owner of one of Salem's finest East India fleets. When "Cotty" was 13, his father became a London banking partner of Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J.P. the First. From 14 to 19, Cotty attended Cheltenham College, preparatory school, where he became "tall, strong as a horse, graceful." From there he went to Cambridge, where he read Punch, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Tennyson and the law-and not much else. "There...
Died. Earle Westwood Sinclair, 70, longtime president of Sinclair Oil Refining Co.; after a heart attack; in Manhattan. While his partner-brother, dashing Harry Sinclair (see above), was bogged down with the trials and tribulations of the Teapot Dome oil scandal, he quietly managed and built their business into one of the world's great oil empires...