Word: partnership
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...search of the "law that will admit of no exceptions." But if he found it, he never set it down. A rapt listener to "the Master'' in the drafting room at night was a young cub named Frank Lloyd Wright. The panic of 1893 smashed the partnership of Adler & Sullivan. Like Gilbert & Sullivan, neither did as well after disunion. From 1880 to 1895 Sullivan designed more than 100 buildings. In the 29 years left of his life, he built only some 20 more. One reason given is liquor. Another is that he could not compromise himself artistically...
...Montgomery, Ala. The Civil War ruined the cotton business; in 1867 the brothers moved to New York. They helped form the Cotton Exchange, floated bonds for traction and ferry companies, backed early issues of Sears, Roebuck and Woolworth preferred. Mayer died in 1897, Emanuel in 1912. The present partnership includes four Lehmans, five non-Lehmans. Philip Lehman, 74, son of Emanuel, is patriarch and senior partner, presides at meetings in the partners' room on the third floor of Lehman Bros, eleven-story building at No. 1 William St. Senior Partner Lehman has a collection of Madonnas which is probably...
...Artists partners-Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn-chose Al Lichtman, for eight years the sales manager who was generally considered responsible for United Artists' brilliantly run distribution. With Lichtman as president. United Artists speedily refilled its producing plant with the Selznick company, a new Mary Pickford-Jesse Lasky partnership and Alexander Korda's London Films, whose pictures it had distributed in the U. S. since...
Extending his operations. Drew settled in Manhattan, entered the steamboat business first in competition, later in partnership with Yanderbilt. Drew it was who put the Commodore into railroads. In 1853 began Drew's association with the Erie Railroad which culminated in the scandalous "Erie War" of 1866-68. Allied with Gould and Fisk, Dan Drew dumped "watered" Erie stock on the market, sheared Vanderbilt of millions while selling Erie short. When their arrest was ordered. Drew, Gould and Fisk took $6,000,000 in greenbacks, retreated to a fortified Jersey City hotel. While the Press gasped at such, blatant...
...soon taken into his firm. With his tastes inclining him toward an academic career and a quiet family life, he had little interest in establishing a great fortune, underwent an extraordinary period of doubt, hesitancy, soul-searching, before accepting the offer of a Morgan partnership. The House of Morgan wanted him, his old friend Calvin Coolidge wrote, "not merely because of his talent, for talent was plentiful and easy to buy, but . . . for his character, which was priceless...