Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion was the fourth annual convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce under the New Deal. Most of the delegates devoutly hoped it would be the last. In 1933 the Chambermen meekly accepted the President's personal proffer of a "partnership" between Government and Business. A year later they were already so scared by the implications of that partnership that President Roosevelt wrote a testy note telling them to stop crying "Wolf!" Last year he not only failed to send his greetings to the assembled Chambermen but conspicuously publicized his opinion that they no longer voiced the real...
...page to the presiding officer. Witnesses had to stand while testifying. First to be called was Lawyer Rankin. Stoutly he insisted that the $4,500 he had given Judge Ritter was payment on an honest debt-the sum for which he had bought out the assets of their partnership...
...backing, a nucleus of a company in which one of his brothers (Vincent) is art director and another (Zoltan) a director. Producer Korda last year arranged to attack the U. S. market (15,000 theatres to Great Britain's 4,000) on a large scale by buying a partnership in United Artists, which releases his pictures in the U. S. For years the English cinema industry functioned in converted garrets, suburban garden backyards and a few vacant lots at Elstree. Producer Korda bought an enormous tract of land at Denham and set about building a $5,000,000 studio...
...astonishing editorial switch which it made in 1932. Founded by a Labor group in 1895, the Record was bought by the late great Edward Wyllis ("Old Man") Scripps, taken over by his estranged son James, became one of the chain which James's heirs published in partnership with the late Byron Hilton Canfield.* Day before elections in 1932, after both partners' deaths, the 9 a. m. edition of the Record appeared with a front-page editorial boosting its old friend & favorite, William Gibbs McAdoo, for the Senate. One hour later the Record came out with the McAdoo editorial...
...incvitable that Laval and his Radical Socialist party break up a partnership which every day was growing more embarrassing for all concerned. For while the Radical Socialist party is far from what the name would suggest to the American mind, being further on the conservative side than the French Socialists, it became impossible for such liberals as Deladier and Herriot to reconcile themselves to the Premier's increasingly reactionary tendencies...