Word: partners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Hopson became ill, Associated was controlled by a junta consisting of his old partner J. I. Mange; Hopson's three sisters (Norma Jones, Perle Hopson, Amy Starch) ; his brother-in-law, Commercial Research's famed Dr. Daniel Starch. A few weeks ago Mr. Mange went calling on Jesse Jones to see about arranging an RFC loan. Soon Associated got the idea thai Mr. Jones's price for making the loan was a finger in management. Last week, Associated acquired a new president, a veteran Washington lawyer named Roger Whiteford, who is given to lecturing...
...reason for this is that in September 1935 Standard failed to finance repayment of a $24,650,000 note issue, landed in a reorganization proceeding in a Delaware Federal District Court. Charges (among others) by Senator Robert Wagner's Law Partner Simon H. Rifkind that: a stock deal with Standard netted Byllesby $5,000,000 on a $500 investment; an operating company purchase by Byllesby for $845,000 was sold four days later to Standard for $1.365,000, caused the court to appoint special counsel to investigate the Byllesby management. Result: a recommendation for a $100,000,000 stockholders...
Officially they did not cross Germany, on their way to bomb the Latvian air bases of Germany's pledged partner Russia. But if the Savoia-Marchettis did not cross German territory, then they arrived in Finland through some fourth dimension, for the British Intelligence Service pointed out that they did not take and were not given permission to take the roundabout route across the German-Allied western battle zone...
...Rule (no player shall receive traveling and/or living expenses for more than eight weeks in any one year). Last week the U. S. L. T. A. surprised the tennis world by suspending from amateur competition pending a hearing two of its most famed players: square-headed Gene Mako, doubles partner of Donald Budge on three Davis Cup teams, and ornery Wayne Sabin, ninth in world ranking this year. Sabin, son of a Portland, Ore. house painter, played in 25 tournaments in the past twelve months...
...nations, dominions, empires actively engaged in World War II, last week came two additions. Russia, Germany's silent and equivocal partner, having made a jackal's feast off conquered Poland, and having taken advantage of the western conflict to subject the three smaller Baltic countries, ran into armed resistance when she tried the same move on Finland...