Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1923 to 1925 Bettor Shouse lost $22,458 by picking slow horses at Maryland and Kentucky race tracks. Race horses he owned in partnership cost him another $6,273. In 1924 he dropped $1,750 by wagering that John William Davis, Democratic nominee for President, would carry Maryland...
...heard a symphony concert. So for several summers he chartered a steamer, cruised the 2,300 mi. down the River Volga playing to the peasants who gathered on its banks. The Revolution made Russia impossible for most musicians. Koussevitzky left along with the rest, settled in Paris where in partnership with his wife he still conducts the profitable music-publishing house called Edition Russe...
...Wall Street where, boyish-looking, genial, he enjoys great popularity, the sympathy that would naturally be felt for him was heightened by the fact that he was known to have left believing all was well. Since a Stock Exchange house must be an indi vidual or partnership with one member on the Stock Exchange, not a corporation (with limited liability) , the bankruptcy of a firm means the bankruptcy of each and every partner...
...business bursts James Golspie, breezy and bumptious, fresh from the Baltic with the sole agency for foreign inlays and veneers procurable at a fabulous economy. In a day affairs are metamorphosed. Impressionable young Dersingham (Twigg is dead) makes a vague sort of manager out of Golspie, who scorns a partnership. Prosperity descends upon the stuffy office. Everyone is cheered, and if Smeeth, withered cashier, Lilian Matfield, condescending stenographer, or Turgis, scrawny young clerk, could any of them fatten they would...
...which his friends had finally persuaded him to abandon. Jews rejoiced, but not for long. Came a blast from Wodenist Ludendorff. He was not suing for divorce, he still loved his wife, still hated the Jews. What he had done was file a petition for dissolution of their financial partnership so that Frau von Ludendorff might be protected from the mounting pile of libel and damage suits registered against Volkswarte...