Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most important background factor in an individual's chances for a happy marriage is the happiness of his parents. Other favorable auguries: having had a happy childhood, having had firm but not harsh early home discipline, having had little conflict with his parents and strong attachment to them, having had parents who were frank about...
...that Dr. Fleming had a big reputation among Hagerstown folk for his ingenious operations. Two years ago, when a patient was brought to him with trachea and larynx squeezed together by an automobile accident, he made an incision in her throat, inserted a rubber tube, and thus provided a firm wall around which a "new" windpipe could grow. Fourteen weeks later he removed the tube, and after a few minor operations, the patient was again able to swallow and talk...
...Weber's fetish for secrecy enveloped the gigantic firm of which he was the autocrat - Allied Chemical & Dye Corp...
...Weber turned over his office to almost equally taciturn Henry Atherton. Since then Allied has revealed what proportion of its income comes from the chemicals it makes, what from investments, has gradually expanded its annual statements. Last week it finally revealed most of the miscellaneous securities the great chemical firm has in the mysterious investment portfolio, which in the happy days of 1929 used to be regarded by speculators as a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow...
Chairman of the new firm is Tri-Continental's longtime head, handsome, suave, bright-eyed Earle Bailie. Born in Milwaukee, this 48-year-old banker began as a lawyer, in 1919 joined J. & W. Seligman & Co., became a partner in four year. He enjoyed a brief moment of national prominence in 1934 as right-hand man to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., was forced out by Senatorial objections to his Wall Street background...