Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work as counsel for Morgan in the congressional investigations, and he became Morgan's chief counsel at the Nye munitions hearing, stayed by his side through his entire testimony. On Christmas Eve in 1938, Morgan summoned Alexander to his Wall Street office and invited him into partnership. After agonizing for more than a month about leaving the active practice of law, Alexander became a Morgan partner...
...House of Morgan meet the new conditions. Its assets had fallen from $118.6 million in 1929 to $39.2 million in 1940, as steep inheritance and income taxes ate away its strength. To save the firm from faltering, Morgan and Alexander worked out a plan to incorporate the old partnership, make it a public bank. In 1940 the firm changed its name to J. P. Morgan...
...construction of the 60-man laboratory, with the Program for Harvard College and private donations financing the rest of the cost. Secretary Flemming also praised this cooperation, stating that the federal government "should continue to help finance expansion at institutes of higher learning without undermining their academic freedom." "A partnership symbolized by this building has developed between the government and higher education," the Secretary commented. He expressed the hope that the Government would continue to sponsor construction by American colleges "to help young people realize their best potentialities...
...which will hold back part of the crop from market. Bat guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio...
...architecture from the University of Washington, he went East to New York, struggled through a long apprenticeship working as a draftsman, waited out the animosity of the war years, in 1945 landed a job with a firm in Detroit, where he stayed. Steady progress led to his first partnership, to his St. Louis airport building, with its lofty barrel vaults of shell concrete (TIME, April 16, 1956), and later, in 1954, to a near fatal case of ulcers...