Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over a nationwide radio network, had signed on with his brother Phil's new political party. If Senator Bob was kinder to the President ("one of the great liberal leaders of modern times") in his speech than Governor Phil had been in Madison last month, he was equally firm in his conviction that the Roosevelt Administration was hopelessly bogged down, that the La Follette National Progressives were the U. S.'s only answer...
...biggest passenger ships in the world, bigger than any U. S. ship save the late (German-built) Leviathan. Holland-America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy of the Van Ommern shipping firm, vetoed the idea of a Government subsidy. They did get a 20-year loan of 12,000,000 gulden from the Government...
...apiece from the Bowdoin fund. They are Philippe Dur 2G., A.B. '35, of New York City, who wrote on "The Use of History"; Raymond A. M. de Roover 2G.B., Lic-en-Sc. Com. et Fin. Institute Superieur de Antwerp, Belgium, 1924, of Antwerp, for an essay entitled "A Florentine Firm of Cloth Manufacturers"; and Leo Goldberg 4G., S.B. '34, of New Bedford, who wrote on "The Collaboration between Physics and Astrophysics with Reference to the Cosmic Behavior of Helium...
Hustling to the stand, SECommissioner John W. Hanes was asked: "Was any suggestion ever made of delaying the charges against Richard Whitney or continuing his firm...
...agency in London, sold so many Chryslers that he was able to sell the agency for a considerable sum. Having had no difficulty selling Englishmen U. S. automobiles, he proceeded to sell them U. S. stocks, became a partner in G.M.-P. Murphy's New York Stock Exchange firm and took charge of G.M.-P. Murphy's London branch. He has now resigned from Murphy's, joined the London firm of Williamson, Fawcett & Stirling...