Word: partnership
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there are to be captives in the White House, Mr. Lewis is ready to join the hunt: "Anxious for more and immediate gains for labor, he would like to see a President elected by a partnership of labor, the middle class, liberals and the farmers. He is thus interested in the possible formation of a bloc which can control the Democratic party; or failing that, a new liberal or progressive party rather than a labor party. His own candidacy for the Presidency, if it comes about in 1940, would be with Lewis a second choice. He would rather back...
...gaunt, bespectacled Floyd Smith has spent most of his 55 years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with William H. Harkness Jr., but the latter died just before they were to start. Later Mrs Harkness tried in vain to get him to accompany her on her first expedition into the wilds of Tibet. Since he has a contract with the London Zoo, two of his pandas are likely...
...been in business since 1865 and has branches from Seattle to Albany, not until 1935 did it pry its way to membership in the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House. The Board of Trade long kept Cargill out because it was a corporation instead of the more clublike partnership the Board prefers. It was thus necessary for Cargill to clear its deals through other members, pay fat commissions. For similar reasons the Board of Trade tried to exclude Farmers National Grain Corp., biggest U. S. cooperative. Farmers National also got in after a fight...
...last week Oliver Carmichael thought he knew very definitely what Vanderbilt and Southern education need: money. He proposed that Vanderbilt and Peabody, which have a close working partnership, enlarge their graduate department to give doctors' degrees in at least 15 fields. And he bluntly informed the South that it should stop depending on the gifts of Northern capitalists, should pay its own educational...
...have already been planned for eggs, rice, potatoes. Because the 1937 bean crop is 23% greater than the 1928-32 norm, chain-store house organs last week sloganed: "Make America bean appreciative." Said Printers' Ink: "These campaigns have demonstrated that farm relief can be practical. . . . Here is a partnership of producers and distributors that has brought producers and consumers closer together, with a taste of prosperity for the farmer, but, unlike taxes, without making the consumer...