Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many people who have never heard of 64-year-old Composer Ives know him as the crotchety, grizzled, retired partner of the conservative William Street insurance firm, Ives & Myrick. A practical Yankee, bristle-bearded Ives long ago decided that he couldn't make a living writing the kind of music he wanted to write. On his graduation from Yale in 1898 he served as a church organist, playing in Danbury, Conn., Bloomfield, N. J., and finally in Manhattan. Weekdays he plugged as a clerk for Mutual Life Insurance Co. Industrious and daring both as businessman and composer, Ives soon...
John Wesley Hanes, 46, is a well-dressed, fun-loving North Carolina squire. The Haneses of Winston-Salem, N. C. are many and substantial. John Wesley is one who, after Yale (1915), made really good in Wall Street as a leading partner of C. D. Barney & Co. He cashed in on marketing Winston-Salem's R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel) stock. Relatively, he survived the 1929 crash better than most Wall Streeters. He kept in touch with North Carolina politics and his old friend Democrat Max Gardner (Governor...
...ball club again. His offer for the New York Giants was refused. Someone suggested that he could buy the down-at-the-heels New York Yankees, weak sister of the American League, for $450,000. He did-in 1915, with a rich contractor, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, as partner. For the next five years the two optimists shopped for a player who could produce home runs, finally found him in Pitcher Babe Ruth, whom they bought from the Boston...
...sensation caused by this unheard-of price made Jacob Ruppert a magic name in baseball. In 1923, after a squabble, he bought out Partner Huston for $1,200,000. Same year he opened the $2,500,000 Yankee Stadium. He paid record salaries ($80,000 to Babe Ruth one season), built up the most extensive, most expensive chain of farm teams in the country...
...fellow Confederate veteran, Colonel Thurmond, after Appomattox. He fought duels, wrote a popular thriller, The White Rose of Memphis, which had sold 160,000 copies before it went out of print 30 years ago, made the grand tour of Europe, always went armed. He also quarreled with peace-loving Partner Thurmond, ran against him for the legislature. On election day 1889, after a savage campaign, Colonel Falkner walked out unarmed after hearing he had won, met Colonel Thurmond, who shot him down on the main street of the town they both helped to build...