Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philosopher-General Andrews succeeds Eliot Wadsworth, brilliant engineer and financier of private fortune, who left the firm of Stone & Webster for Red Cross Management in 1916, went thence to Secretary Mellon's service...
Onetime (1911-13) Secretary to President Taft, prominent in New York politics, Chair man of the Republican National Committee (1912-16), head of an employer's liability insurance firm...
...ancient and bewhiskered type , in the land-grabbing business: no one person is allowed to get a permit to prospect over more than 2,560 acres, so crooked prospectors use dummies. Allegedly, some 9,000 acres were so secured by one Gordon Campbell,- client of the Butte, Mont., law firm of Wheeler & Baldwin, allegedly with Mr. Wheeler's senatorial...
...Manhattan from Ohio to conduct the Cox-for-President boom. After the Convention, he besought Robert W. Woolley, who had been engaged as Publicity Director for the party, to place all the campaign advertising through him. Mr. Woolley was "sold." Thereupon Newman went to Van Patten Inc., a recognized firm of advertising agents, got a job as Vice President as reward for getting the business of the Democratic Party...
...case of Dennistoun v. Dennistoun (TIME, Mar. 23) came to an end. The jury awarded Mrs. Dennistoun $30,000 damages against her divorced husband, since married to Almina, Dowager Countess of Carnarvon. The question of costs was still under consideration. Immediately after the case, a firm of solicitors in London announced that a "young, unmarried and beautiful" client intended to bring a suit against Colonel Dennistoun for breach of promise. The lady was said to be an American, alleged to be Lois Meredith, cinema star, who, interrogated in Manhattan, did not deny that she was the "young, unmarried and beautiful...