Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...records him as a gold miner, cowboy, friend of Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid, a scout for General Nelson A. Miles in his campaigns against the Apaches. He served his apprenticeship in the gambling and horse-racing business in Texas and at Juarez, Mexico, before starting a bookmaking partnership. After seasons at Hot Springs, St. Louis and Memphis tracks he branched out on his own in Chicago during the old World's Fair...
After Nicole's breakdown in Paris, Dick accepts an offer of a partnership in a Swiss clinic of his own. Nicole seems better but Dick cannot get Rosemary out of his head. Several years later he runs into her in Italy. They become lovers and quarrel. Dick goes back to the clinic, takes to drink, gradually goes to pot. His partner buys him out. Nicole, now completely cured, looks at her once-adored husband with new eyes, sees him rapidly losing his charm and his character. She takes the patient Tommy Barban as a lover, divorces Dick. He goes...
...just gone to bed in a cheap London hotel one night in 1903 when Mr. Rolls burst in and introduced himself as a salesman of French cars. Each was passionately fond of engineering, each dreamed of building the finest car in the world. Then & there began a famed partnership which lasted until 1910 when Charles Rolls crashed to death in an airplane. Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., founded nine years later with U. S. capital, and British control, began producing cars in 1921. Even before Depression, the makers found that many a well-to-do U. S. businessman, financially able...
What has become significant is that the experts who study ways and means of getting tax revenue plainly confess that there has to be a profit system. For Uncle Sam has gone into partnership with the productive capacity or earning power of individuals as well as companies. In a nutshell, the Government splits on a thirty-seventy basis on all $100,000 incomes and, while the proportion may be open to debate, depending on what amounts are desired to collect, there can be no doubt that the treasury's fortunes are dependent upon a continuance of a system of rewards...
Last week, at 34, Mike Devlet thought it was again time to change jobs. He dissolved his partnership with John Gertler and walked out with a small army of Gertler, Devlet employes. Partner Gertler added "& Co." to his name and continued the old business with branches in eight U. S. cities. Mike Devlet organized his own municipal bond house as follows: he set up six individual concerns each operated by its own partners, and each a specialist in a particular branch of the business. One was to sell high grade bonds, another land bank and Home Owners Loan bonds...