Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forkland, that lies near the Mississippi border in southern Alabama. At 17 he was in Yale. In 1901 he was at Columbia Law School, where one of his classmates was a heavyset, luxury-loving youth named Martin Thomas Manton. By 1910 he was the junior partner in the firm of Stanchfield & Levy. Stanchfield was one of the powerful Democrats who labored mightily to impeach Governor William Sulzer back in 1913. Louis Levy was then a well-groomed, sharp young lawyer. In this same year he was closely questioned by a New York County Grand Jury because of his part...
Harvard's running attack is built on a firm foundation, and it will take more than an inspired bunch of Elis to prevent it from reaching pay dirt at least once. Bill Stack is a fine center, Bob Brooks and George Seabury are a pair of powerful tackles, and Cape Burnam and Jim Dern are capable guards, but the pressure on them Saturday is going to be terrific. Moreover, the reserves for these men have the doubtful distinction of not having worn themselves out against Princeton. They sat on the bench all afternoon and picked up valuable experience...
Forty years ago able Will Keith Kellogg quit the business managership of his brother Dr. John Harvey's Michigan Sanitarium and Benevolent Association in Battle Creek, founded the Sanitas Nut Food Do., Ltd., to manufacture the health foods the doctor fed his patients. His little firm, now the Kellogg Company, became the No. 1 U. S. packaged cereal maker, which has factories on three continents and does upwards of $30,000,000 business every year. In all that time gloomy, barrel-tested, bald Will Keith has kept a mighty grip on his firm's affairs. When he appointed...
...outdone, the French have devised a new strategy aimed at hypnotizing the enemy from the front while the right wing encircles the main body and gradually crushes it in a firm embrace. Trained at the Ecole Militaire de Hollywood, Mr. Charles Boyer has been intrusted with the command. The first move will be a nation-wide series of lectures to American women's clubs. Boyer is just the man for the job. Daladier can bully the Chambre and make it take notice. Bonnet knows his finance. Weygand can play a campaign over his morning coffee. But only Boyer...
While American shipping concerns do not all have subsidiary organizations in other countries, any firm could set up a temporary "dummy" corporation in a Central or South American nation, and thus make a shift of registration a mere formality, he pointed...