Word: partner
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Bank had advanced Brazil a loan of $6,075,000 for railroad construction. When a mission headed by Brazil's industrial tsar, Guilherme Guinle, and including her foremost steel expert, Lieut. Colonel Macedo Soares, appeared in Washington to talk business with Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Jones, the new partner proved to be the U. S. Government...
...Supreme Court appeared one Helen Butler Jacobs to sue the estate of Joe ("Yussel the Muscle") Jacobs, late fight manager, for $1,000 and a third of his share of the Max Baer-Tony Galento fight, claiming she was his wife. Said William J. McCarney, Jacobs' former business partner: "He had half a dozen girls. . . . When he introduced another woman to me as his 'little wife' I asked him if he was married. 'Do you think I'm crazy?' he answered...
...would conquer Great Britain before winter, or even that he would try. The Empire was more vulnerable. For the defense of the Isles Britain had drawn on the Empire's defenses; her life line was weak in many places. On one weak place, Egypt, Hitler's Axis partner was whittling already (see p. 27). Others looked equally tempting: Africa, land of gold and diamonds; the Near East, land of oil; even India, the Empire's slightly tarnished jewel...
...civilization was the maintenance of its free universities. On that, Pennsylvania had discouraging news. Three years ago it started a drive, to culminate at the Bicentennial, for $12,500,000, to extend its research, strengthen its teaching, build new buildings. Despite the efforts of Thomas Sovereign Gates, onetime Morgan partner who has served the university as president since 1930 without pay, of Philadelphia Banker Joseph Wayne Jr., drive chairman, of Thomas I. Parkinson, president of Equitable Life, and of John Price Jones, high-powered professional fund raiser, the drive last week fell far short of its goal. Total raised...
Almost as well known as the genesis of The Star-Spangled Banner is the history of God Bless America-how Kate Smith's Manager & Partner Ted Collins asked Irving Berlin to whip up a patriotic ballad for the diva's Armistice Eve program in 1938; how Songwriter Berlin sat down at a piano, pecked out a variation of a ballad he had written in 1917; how Kate Smith relentlessly plugged the song. Not so well known are the many commercial and artistic complications through which God Bless America has recently staggered...