Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objects, Solomon Guggenheim, celebrated his 76th birthday last week. Fourth of the seven sons of old Meyer Guggenheim, Colorado mining tycoon, he was one of the most active members in developing the Guggenheim copper empire. He is still a director in half-a-dozen mining companies besides holding a partnership in Guggenheim Bros. He has served as board chairman of American Smelting & Refining Co. Many years ago he began to collect pictures, built up a valuable collection of such objective paintings as Dutch old masters, German and Italian primitives...
...time. At one point he took a job as a billposter. He made a first trip to the tropics, to Martinique, but it was a disappointment. Then Vincent van Gogh, a lone wolf like himself, invited him to come and work with him at Aries. Their queer partnership broke up when van Gogh went crazy and cut off his ear with a razor. Meanwhile Gauguin and Mette wrote to each other, in a fairly friendly fashion. He tried to explain to her why he was acting as he did: "My business is art, it is my capital...
...wholly in common stock, whose voting rights will be diluted by the new preferred. ¶ Proud of a 1936 record is President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Oil Co. He discovered more new oil per share of stock (50 bbl.) than any other oilman in the U. S. In partnership with Humble Oil. Barnsdall last summer tapped a big pool in Nueces County, Tex. On the last day of 1936 Barnsdall and Standard Oil of Indiana discovered an 80,000,000 bbl. reserve in Louisiana's Lafourche Parish. This week in California Barnsdall prepared to bring in a well...
...work and a Packard convertible for pleasure, has a valet. He wears berets, blue and white checked bathrobes, blue linen beach suits. Last summer, his association with Barbara Stanwyck was the most publicized Hollywood romance of the year outside of Mary Astor's. Currently, the Stanwyck-Taylor partnership, one of the conventions of which was that each gave the other an expensive present every week, is thought to be cooling. Last week, Robert Taylor announced he would travel to Washington with Jean Harlow to watch the inaugural...
...missed the international matches in England for the first time in 15 years because of pressing business affairs. He was no longer willing to leave the U. S. just for polo. Last week his business association since 1932 with Lehman Bros., big Manhattan investment banking house, matured into a partnership. His good friend Robert Lehman often plays polo with the great Hitchcock at Meadow Brook...