Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year with Sargent, James acquired $67,000 worth of independence. Business improved each succeeding year until James-now the richest of the Roosevelts excepting possibly his grandmother-is estimated to be worth half a million dollars. And the end is not in sight: James resigned the presidency of his firm when he went to work at the White House, but he still draws half the profits...
Hefty, squarejawed, 51, President Ortiz belongs to none of Argentina's influential "old families." From an importing firm and small law practice in 1910 he has built a $4,000,000 fortune. Last week, as he took over the Presidency, he had the backing of foreign and Argentine financial interests, who expect an era of good business under their businessman-President. In a country where foreign capital has some $4,000,000,000 invested and where exports of the livestock and agricultural barons are 90% of the nation's business, it looked as if they would get what...
...weeks after the first issue, TIME moved from its cubicles in the office of an advertising firm (just around the corner from Fifth Avenue and Manhattan's Public Library) to larger quarters on the second floor of an East-side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed...
...when Raymond Marien answered a want ad from the Manhattan accounting firm of Homes & Davis, he had already been in jail once for forgery. But no one at Homes & Davis knew that, and Raymond Marien had a good head for figures. He got the job. He worked hard, and in 1933 he was put in charge of the accounting of Interstate Hosiery. Because of the activities of Mr. Marien, Interstate Hosiery statistics are highly dubious, but a rough guess by officers at its current net assets last week was $925,000. Every month Mr. Marien went to the company mills...
...vote favoring repeal in the measure's second reading on Tuesday was considered a strong indication that the legislation be placed on Governor Hurley's desk. His veto message last year and his remarks at the opening of the present session of the General Court assert his firm support of the oath...