Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...require trained mathematicians, but pains taking accuracy and the ability to see numerical relationships are essential. Opportunities for auditors and accountants are to be found in all businesses, with advancement for the most successful men culminating in such positions as controller, treasurer, bank officer, or partner in a firm of certified public accountants. Beginners' jobs occasionally require some study of accountancy as a prerequisite, but more often now employees are expected to study the subject in night school either on their own or company time. For public accounting positions, business school graduates are often given preference...
...conflicting official viewpoints present a definite problem. From Washington circles, the President's firm intention to remain neutral in any European embroilment has up to yesterday remained unquestioned. As an official envoy from the President, Ambassador Bullitt has in part, at least, shattered this stand. Until the position held by the Administration is restated or qualified, the foreign policy must remain dubious...
...minor civil suit, Harrison Parker continued to hound his huge adversary. From his cell in Cook County Jail he accused the Tribune of trying to poison him with an arsenical birthday cake, raised such a row that Weymouth Kirkland of the Tribune's high-powered law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis...
...Parker, the conviction of Leo Brothers for the murder of the Tribune's crook-reporter Jake Lingle (who saved up a fortune of $150,000 on a news-hawk's pay) was a frame-up. True it was that a member of the Tribune's law firm was made a special assistant state's attorney to help build the case against Brothers-and this appointment had been made by State's Attorney Swanson, thus presumably obligating the Tribune...
Before Federal Judge John P. Barnes, the high-powered law firm of Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis argued that the contract was void, that the agreement was against public policy, that the court did not have jurisdiction anyway...