Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following March. Until 1882 he practised in Fall River, moving at that time to Erie being admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1884. For a time thereafter he ran the Erie Despatch Publishing Company, retiring from journalism in 1897 to give his whole time to the law, being in partnership with his father in law being in partnership with his father in law David R. McCreavy and Clark. He was often during these years a Delegate to Republican Convention. He has also been President of the Orphans Court of Erie County...
...Locarno Room, where the "Spirit of Locarno" was distilled into a pact which was to have made France and Germany friends (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), the new treaty was hailed by Foreign Secretary Eden as "a symbol of freely agreed partnership between the British and Egyptian peoples...
...Government's peace and dignity had not been disturbed by the Circus itself, either in its present corporate form or in the Ringling partnership which preceded it. Nor was the integrity of its principal owner, John Ringling, at stake. So far as the Government could see, the alleged frauds had been perpetrated without the knowledge or consent of robustious old "Mr. John," the last of the seven Rungeling Brothers from Baraboo, Wis. whose name was changed by a typesetter and allowed to stand uncorrected. All six men indicted in Manhattan last week were agents-"Mr. John's" secretary...
According to Messrs. Clarke & Creel, the Ringling partnership took in $53,400,000 from 1918 through 1932, an average of about $3,500,000 annually. It paid out about $42,600,000, leaving net profits of nearly $10,800.000, an average of about $720,000 annually. The Government's figures showed that in only four years were earnings less than $500,000, in two other years more than $1,000,000. However, the people who made out the Ringling tax returns claimed the picture was much darker, reporting net profits for the 15 years...
...brother. Robert Ingersoll, kin of but not the atheist, introduced the first clock watch, the Ingersoll "that made the dollar famous." The watches were manufactured for the Ingersoll brothers by Waterbury Clock Co. During the post-War depression the Ingersolls became over-extended on short-term loans, their partnership went through bankruptcy and the Waterbury company took over their business. Now both watches and clocks are marketed under the Ingersoll name...