Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visits his Aunt Minnie (Fay Templeton) who is Roberta, a famed Paris dressmaker. Planning to will her establishment to her assistant, a onetime Russian princess (Tamara), Aunt Minnie dies without signing the will, thus forcing her nephew-heir to turn dressmaker. The princess and the college boy go into partnership, fall reticently in love. The boy's old girl reappears, takes her young man back...
...industrial committee headed by Mr. Gerard Swope has broken into revolt at last. They announce that they are amenable to government partnership in business, but beg to register a vote in favour of what they call industrial self government. In other words, now that the machinery of regimentation is being set up for the joint control of capital, labour, and the consumer, capital is in favour of it if labour and the consumer are withdrawn from the helm, and the industrialists are left to their own dainty devices...
...waving act, Cohan began publishing The Spotlight, a weekly throwaway. "Week after week I'd go after them," he recalls. "Week after week they'd come back at me. They slipped me at least a million dollars worth of free newspaper advertising." In 1904 he went into partnership with Sam Harris. They married the Nolan sisters of Boston, oldtime musicomedy favorites. They built houses next to each other at Great Neck, L. I. From then on the pinchbeck little kingdom which begins at Manhattan's Columbus Circle and ends at Herald Square was the private domain...
...district calls "regular." When a thing is not regular, Mr. Cohan does not want to have anything to do with it. In 1919, recalling the White Rats, he did not think that the newly organized Actors' Equity was regular. When Equity won its strike, Cohan dissolved his partnership with his brother-in-law, vowing he was through with the theatre. He was through with it three weeks...
Pollux confided to me that he was nothing short of alarmed at the imminence of a third Battle of the Century. What, he asked, if Billy Sunday, following the example of Aimee Semple Macpherson Hutton who plans to team up with the great Mrs. Costello, should offer a partnership to Machine-Gun Kelly, another famous humanitarian? And what if their paths should cross, what if the Kelly-Sunday team should muscle in on legitimate Costello-Macpherson territory? When they meet in evangelistic competition are life-lines thrown out, or pineapples? Pretty questions, Pollux, I admit, and ones fraught with considerable...