Word: firmed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Rt. Hon. Alexander Montgomery Carlisle, 71, designer of the ill fated Titanic, friend of former Kaiser Wilhelm II, whom he visited recently at Doorn (TIME, Nov. 30, GERMANY), retired General Manager of the great Belfast shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff, created a member of the Privy Council by Edward VII; at London, after prophesying his death some weeks ago and ordering that the Merry Widow Waltz be played at his funeral...
...Filene, who is well known as a merchant in the vicinity of Boston, has exerted considerable influence in promoting friendly business relations between the United States and foreign countries, and has been greatly interested in international affairs of a more general nature. He has been a firm and constant believer in the necessity of American participation in European affairs. He believes that a policy of continued isolation cannot be maintained and that the United States must directly share in the difficult work of political and economic reconstruction. He believes that the United States must cooperate with the other nations...
Whimsical connoisseurs of Victorianism chuckled and rubbed their hands last week as the London firm of Longmans, Green & Co.* issued two new volumes of the diaries and correspondence of Queen Victoria, by imperial fiat of her grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow...
Vickers Ltd. Some time after the meeting between Maria del Pilar and Zaharoff, he strode into the London office of the great munitions firm of Vickers Ltd. If report speaks truth, he asked a single question: "If I am able to procure for your firm the munitions orders of the Spanish Government, will you reward me with a partnership in your establishment, as well as the usual commissions...
...years ago, he went partners with one L. C. Noble, into the firm of Heinz & Noble, to bottle vegetables for the market. This firm grew, changed names, moved to Pittsburgh, expanded. In 1888, at 44 Henry John retired for a season. He had done some traveling, wanted to do more, eventually had seen the continents. From Rome he brought and erected in his Pittsburgh administration building a fountain. Ivory collecting was a pleasant avocation. His gathering contained 1,300 carved pieces, one of the few of its kind in the U. S. In 1919 he died, 25 years after...