Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Brewster-Newell horse partnership broke up in 1955, Newell, who had put in most of the money, emerged with a $40,000 loss. Brewster, who insisted that sometimes he really walked the horses, somehow came out with a $44,000 profit. The Brewster-Newell accounts still have not been finally settled because of an argument about the disposition of a mare named Whang Bang. Asked Committee Chairman John McClellan: "Is this a kind of whang-bang transaction?" Replied Frank Brewster: "She was a whang-bang mare. She won 40,000-some dollars...
...things, Brewster told the special Senate committee investigating improper labor and industry activities he owes around $42,000 to George Newell of Seattle, who makes some $300,000 a year in brokerage fees on the union's health and welfare fund. The debt developed out of a racing stable partnership, now dissolved...
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan last night opened their American-British partnership-mending conference with an informal "working dinner," in Tucker's Town, Bermuda. The two chiefs got into preliminary discussions over the table at their midocean club conference headquarters...
Elkins had testified that he had entered into a Portland vice partnership with Seattle Gamblers Tom Maloney and Joe McLaughlin and that they were acting as the rackets' representatives of their good friend, West Coast Teamsters' Boss Frank Brewster. Elkins said he had given Maloney and McLaughlin $20,000 in eight months as their cut of the operation, but they had nonetheless decided he was holding out. For his part, Elkins thought he was being doublecrossed by Maloney and McLaughlin-and he had done something about it. He had wired their hotel rooms and made tape recordings...
...Oregon if we had their backing." Elkins, Maloney and-although they had previously been committed to another candidate-the Teamsters decided to back one William Langley for the key job of district attorney of Multnomah (Portland) County. Elkins knew Lawyer Langley well: he had, he testified, once been in partnership with Langley in a gambling place...