Word: second-in-command
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...Campbell Soup Co., the advertising agency of F. Wallis Armstrong Co. never had to worry about losing that fat account, though it did lose Philco Radio and Victor Talking Machine. Grown rich and weary, Mr. Armstrong last week sold out to Louis Ward Wheelock Jr., his easygoing, active, second-in-command, with two momentous results: The agency will now be named after its new owner and it will move to Philadelphia's midtown Lincoln-Liberty Building from its old offices, a brick mansion at the corner of 16th & Locust Streets which was once the home of the shipbuilding Cramp...
...Giannini bank has more than 400 branches throughout California, has deposits of more than $1,000,000,000, is the biggest U. S. bank outside Manhattan. Mario Giannini is operating head, second-in-command when his famed father is there, chief executive officer when his father is absent, which is about five months of the year. Slight, baldish, Mario Giannini is at 41 a veteran of one of the classic wars of U. S. financial history-the long Depression fight in which old Amadeo Giannini lost, then regained control of Transamerica Corp., owner of Bank of America. Son Mario...
Degiac Kassa and General Mariotti thought alike. Before the General was able to unlimber his camel guns, volley upon volley of rifle fire echoed from the cliffs. Skirmish lines went out, runners raced for munitions, support. Colonel Belli, the General's second-in-command, ran forward to help the mountain battery, got bullets in a hand and knee...
...University of Kentucky Law School by leading a jazz band, playing the piano. He coached the Centre College football teams of 1922-27, got himself elected to the State Senate in 1929. There he cultivated Ruby Laffoon, with whom he rode into Frankfort two years later as second-in-command...
...observed that his countrymen would also be amused if they heard of him traveling down a "River of Doubt." There were hints in the air, which Roosevelt was not supposed to hear, that, if he agreed to go, the river would be named for him. For second-in-command he was promised the services of Colonel Rondon, a seasoned jungle traveler. Colonel Roosevelt agreed...