Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wondered whether a "Mellon judge" was cracking back at them. White-haired, erudite Judge Gibson was appointed to the bench by President Harding 16 months after Mr. Mellon became Harding's Secretary of the Treasury. His son-in-law, William H. Eckert, is a member of the law firm of Smith, Buchanan, Scott & Ingersoll, Aluminum Co. attorneys. But in Pittsburgh it is a rare Republican, Presbyterian and substantial citizen who does not have at least one son-in-law connected with a Mellon enterprise and who, though no creature of the Mellons, does not think much as the Mellons...
Nineteen other directors went out with him, and a new board of twelve was set up. consisting of six bankers, five actors and directors and a representative of Paul Joseph Goebbels' film chamber. In effect this meant that Propagandist Goebbels had gobbled the entire firm, for all the other directors were hand-picked...
Partner King. Even more than the Swedes, the Norwegians, the Dutch and the Belgians, the Danes regard their Crown and its wearer as honored (but not sanctified or adulated) elements of a partnership in the business of national living. They call it Forretningen Danmark (the business firm of Denmark) but the connotation is social and philosophical as well as commercial. On his daily horseback rides through Copenhagen, the King of Denmark nods to civilians, salutes ladies, chats with small boys or truckdrivers- and obeys traffic lights-not with the self-conscious condescension that is forced upon British royalty but with...
...large numbers that gathered around Widener last night testify to the popularity of these Glee Club sessions, and the firm roots that they have planted in Harvard soil. They are as characteristic of the Harvard spirit as any one thing can be, in that they are a combination of the informal, the intellectual, the esthetic, and the sociable. Besides this they give as much pleasure to the residents of Cambridge and the average passer-by as they do to the undergraduate himself...
...Martha took up an increasing amount of his time and his money. To make a hit with her he drew more and more cash from the business. To get the cash, he persuaded simple-minded Babushkin to open a private account, cash firm checks there and hand him the money. Bogen explained this procedure to his partner by saying that it was a scheme for beating the Government out of a big income tax. As Bogen's pursuit of Martha got more expensive but no more successful, so much money went down the drain that the firm...