Word: partnerships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This joint-ownership ceased last July. Señor Patiño asked Lead to get out- perhaps because Señor Patiño's other English customers for tin objected to his partnership with a lead manufacturer. Regretfully, Lead's President Edward J. Cornish got out. Last week President Cornish got Lead into Associated Lead Manufacturers, Ltd., Great Britain's largest fabricator of lead products. (The deal involved a large but not majority block of stock.) Thus, National Lead is still Señor Patiño's most important customer, with results perhaps...
...McKinley, he was hardly known outside Ohio's borders. He worked at his father's grocery and shipping business until he had made a fortune out of it; married Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Coal-and-Iron-King Daniel Rhodes, lost his fortune and went into partnership with his father-in-law. Soon Rhodes & Co. became M. A. Hanna & Co. Long before he showed his whole political hand Hanna began to take an interest in politics. He attended the Republican conventions of 1888 and 1892, but he bided his time and saw how things were done. Then...
...want a man who knows how the borrower feels and looks."); why George F. Baker summoned him five years later, to be vice president and director of the First National Bank, succeeding the same Davison; why J. P. Morgan gave him the banking accolade of a Morgan partnership in 1911. All his life, he has been a known quantity; his assets have been realizable...
...members of the Coolidge sub-cabinet-William Joseph Donovan and Henry Herrick Bond-lately formed a law firm in Washington. They called the partnership Donovan & Bond. It made a hole in the Treasury-the post Mr. Bond had occupied as Assistant Secretary. Last week President Hoover very neatly filled that hole by the appointment of Walter Ewin Hope, Manhattan lawyer. Princeton men throughout the land felt happier because their college had been accorded greater representation in official Washington by this "drafting" of one of their distinguished members...
...bottles. He blew, blew, blew, until he grew tired of blowing. In 1889 he stopped blowing, started thinking. Thirteen years of thought produced in 1902 the Owens Bottle Machine, as epochal in glass manufacture as the cotton gin was in the cotton industry. He patented his machine and, in partnership with Edward Drummond Libbey, started making bottles in a one-story frame building in Toledo, Ohio. Since they had patents on the only bottle-making machine in existence, they prospered. The Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo, has long been the largest bottle manufacturer in the world. Its absorption...