Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emergency session, and John L. Lewis dispatched a personal representative to attend. After an all-night meeting the faction-torn executive committee broke up for breakfast, went groggily to bed. Meantime a U. A. W. underling went out to the Fisher plant, learned that the rebels were under the firm impression that Homer Martin was scared to speak to them in person. Attempting to report this to his immediate superior by telephone, the underling was connected by mistake with Homer Martin. Leaping from bed the young U. A. W. president, a onetime national hop, step & jump champion, taxied...
...tall, handsome and 53, he is a member of the odd-lot brokerage firm of Jacquelin & De Coppet. Last week he was designated to become the top man of golf -to become president of the U. S. Golf Association, taking office next January...
...Last week, while foreign oil companies threatened to leave Mexico, and relations between the Mexican and U. S. Governments were under greater strain than at any time for years, President Cárdenas further confused the subject by promising to lease (but not leasing) to a British firm the rights to the undeveloped portions of the Poza Rica field, second in richness only to the Iraq field...
With offices in London, Paris and Brussels, Dr. Tenenbaum's aids maintain eternal vigilance over trade relations with Germany to spot violations of the boycott. If the boycott council ferrets out evidence of such a violation, the firm involved is asked for an explanation. If none is forthcoming, the council pickets its offices, publishes its name and offense, does its best to prevent customers from trading there until the firm agrees to arbitrate...
Last week's fur story involved three of the most potent fur firms in the country: Eitingon Schild Fur Corp., whose $9,789,000 sales last year entitle it to the position of world's largest fur dealer; Balkan Importing Corp., New York office of the big Rumanian firm Pellimpex; and Alexander Bernstein Co., privately owned so that its figures are kept secret, but generally believed to be among New York's ten biggest. Some months ago Eitingon and Bernstein received shipments of furs worth $800,000 from Pellimpex, were aided by Balkan in selling them. Pouncing...