Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business in pugilism means close co-operation between a heavyweight champion and his handlers on the one hand and a shrewd fight promoter on the other, like the partnership between Promoter Rickard and Champion Dempsey. Last week's fight was the first held for the heavyweight championship under other than Garden auspices since Dempsey won the title. To engage in it, because it promised greater profits. Champion Braddock and his manager had broken a Garden contract to fight German Max Schmeling...
...Champion Louis' exclusive services. Since a condition of fighting Joe Louis will doubtless be for all challengers a similar contract with Promoter Jacobs, Louis' victory last week gave Promoter Jacobs a virtual monopoly on all really largescale pugilistic enterprises in the future, set up a new promoting partnership which may eventually make the biggest Dempsey-Rickard coups look like small beans. Confusion. When Max Schmeling last year surprisingly knocked out Joe Louis for the first time in his career, his just reward was obviously a fight with Champion Braddock. When after contracting for the fight, Champion Braddock withdrew...
Once united, Sefton and Meadows learned from each other. The two started vaulting to equal heights, soon were breaking records in partnership. Meadows did 13 ft. 11½ in. by the end of freshman year, Sefton an even 14 ft. With almost monotonous regularity they tied for national and intercollegiate titles during the next two years. Meadows took the Olympic title alone last year, but twice this spring the Trojan "twins" have vaulted to identical heights to smash the accepted world's record of 14 ft. 6½ in. held by Oregon's George Varoff. At the Stanford...
...deductions from income; 5) borrowing money from personal holding companies so as to claim the interest as an income deduction; 6) creating trusts for wife, children and relatives so as to divide family income and keep it out of the highest surtax brackets; 7) taking wives and children into partnership for the same purpose; 8) creating pension trusts, which pay reduced taxes, for the benefit not of ordinary employes but of a few high officers of a company. To these dodges Mr. Morgenthau added three others "which the law itself permits": 1) claims for depletion by oil and mining companies...
...short-time Mississippi lawyer (in Oxford), Mr. Farish joined the oil rush to Texas after the discovery of the famed Spindletop field at the Century's turn. Working as a roustabout, he saved his pennies, kept an eye peeled for big money. He went into partnership with Robert Lee Blaffer and out of their small beginnings grew Humble Oil Co., the mighty company which Standard now controls. Mr. Parish's official residence is still Houston, though he lives most of the time on Park Avenue, Manhattan. He likes to shoot quail in Thomasville, Ga., where he owns...