Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...contract to play for pay. She will devote four and a half months to the promotion of Wilson tennis racquets, will play in 50 U. S. cities, starting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Jan. 6. Her fellow troupers: Don Budge, Bill Tilden and a co-ed partner (probably Mary Hardwick, England's No. 1 ranking player). Her first year's guarantee: $25,000 and a cut of the gate...
...businessmen, New Dealers, bankers and labor leaders met in Washington to talk about the Re-employment of Labor and Capital. Host was the Savings Bank Journal's editor, Milton Harrison (TIME, Sept. 30), who has held six similar forums this year. Moderator was a quiet, dark Sullivan & Cromwell partner, Norris Darrell. By 10 p.m., after six hours of good-and ill-natured debate, the embattled forumists had not made much progress towards mutual understanding. The Government-spenders were still unashamed Government-spenders, the let-industry-do-the-job men were still for letting industry do the job. The expression...
...partner suffers from rheumatic heart disease (which doctors suspect is infectious), the other might conceivably catch it. But most other forms of heart trouble are organic, noninfectious. As far as doctors know, so is cancer. Why husbands & wives should suffer these diseases together is a great mystery. Dr. Ciocco, who as a statistician is no sentimentalist, finds the mystery "immediately discouraging...
...group of 65 newspapermen, led by the late, famed Publisher Victor Fremont Lawson of the Chicago Daily News and his onetime partner, Melville Elijah Stone, met in Chicago and organized the Associated Press of Illinois. It was the first big non-commercial news agency (incorporated in New York in 1900 under a law providing for the organization of "fish & game" clubs) to share news dispatches among its member papers...
Edward G. Robinson, whose portrait of German Scientist Ehrlich entrenched him in the field of cinema biography, growls pleasantly through Reuter's tribulations. He has to buck the artistic irresponsibility of his poet-partner Max (Eddie Albert) and the indifference of rubber-skinned bankers before he proves that pigeons can pack the news from Brussels to Aachen quicker than the fleetest stagecoach...