Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventual consequences of the" Black scandal would, it appeared, be more painful for Mr. Roosevelt than for his appointee. Sworn in secretly the day he received his commission, Justice Black had been measured for his robes before sailing for Europe. Last week, the Albany, N. Y. firm which specializes in judicial robes announced that Hugo Black's $90 costume of ebony French silk was ready to put on when Hugo Black returns. For the President the Black scandal came most embarrassingly at the time when he was not only proposing to reopen his campaign to put more sympathetic jurists...
Reform v. Machine. Because New Dealer LaGuardia succeeded in winning in a Republican primary, because most of New York City's newspapers, including Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Joseph Medill Patterson's News are his firm supporters, the primary results were hailed as a great LaGuardia victory. Such they were, for stubby little firebrand LaGuardia had bothered to make only one campaign speech...
...Europe by the 18th Century, was thereafter a lost art until British bellmakers began rediscovering it about 40 years ago. When alumni and faculty members of Alfred University resolved to spend some $10,000 on a memorial carillon for President Emeritus Boothe Colwell Davis, they instructed a bell founding firm of Brussels, Michaux & Michaels, to buy 35 old bells rather than cast new ones, which would cost somewhat more. Agents of Michaux & Michaels bought the bells in municipal halls, churches and chateaux of Belgium, Holland, northern France. Many of the owners parted with their bells because they feared they might...
Died. Benjamin Lloyd Belt, 70, president of the tobacco firm of P. Lorillard Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitefield, N. H. Tobacconist Belt, a horse-loving Virginian, became president of hoary P. Lorillard in 1924, immediately brought out Old Golds to keep pace with younger competitors...
...Calder's luck is not limited to golf-he has made a huge success out of everything he has touched. Fourth of six brothers, he was born in New York City 51 years ago. At 25 he went to work as a salesman in the wood pulp & paper firm of Perkins-Goodwin Co. where his older brother Lou already had a job. Three years later Union Bag & Paper, biggest U. S. bagmaker, offered him $40 a week to come to them. After a month he was fired in an economy drive. But the Calder luck came through on schedule...