Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaking in German with a quavering voice he declared: "I am glad to see you, while at home there is being fought out a battle so unjust, so bitter and so inimical to conscience and religion. . . . The presence of you, dear children, here means that you wish to remain firm in your religion. . . . Tell your people that the Pope prays for them, daily, daily, daily...
...pneumonia, following a lung operation; in Rochester, Minn. At the 1912 Democratic National Convention he was runner-up to the late Thomas R. Marshall for the Vice Presidential nomination. In 1922 he entered partnership with Louis M. Kardos Jr. in a Wall Street brokerage firm which soon failed, was exposed as a "bucket shop." Admitting that he had received $500 a week for the use of his name as "window dressing," "Honest John" Burke surrendered all he had, returned to Fargo penniless...
...week was Mrs. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt. it was caused by her eagerness to perform creditably at the launching of her husband's newest yacht. Last week, in the salty little city of Bath, Me., the moment lor which Mrs. Vanderbilt had been nerving herself finally arrived. Taking a firm grip on a ribboned bottle of champagne, she swung it briskly against the bow of what, in the Bath Iron Works, had theretofore been merely Hull No. 272. Cried she with faultless diction: "I christen thee Ranger." The hull slipped smoothly down its chute, flopped into the water, stern first...
Hired by Lennen & Mitchell to do the job for Lorillard was a firm called Publishers Service Co., Inc., previously employed by Publisher Julius David Stern to cook up rebus contests for his Philadelphia Record and New York Post. In the Post building on Manhattan's West Street, Publishers Service has barnlike offices furnished principally with a good set of dictionaries. Genius of the place is lanky, sandy-haired Frederick Gregory Hartswick, a Yale high-jumper of the class of 1914 who made puzzles a profession, ran the puzzle page on the old New York World and has been getting...
After Francis Ward Paine of Paine, Webber admitted that while his firm held title to the stock it acted "practically as a dummy" for the Van Sweringens, Senator Wheeler produced a letter written to O. P. & M. J. Van Sweringen in March 1930, by Joseph R. Swan, then president of Guaranty Co. Mr. Swan's letter, introduced to prove that C. & O. really acquired no option but immediate control of C. & E. I., was an interesting sidelight on the dummy deal. Wrote he: "I very much need some profit for the Guaranty Co. in this quarter, and on that...