Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Harvard students are a thrifty lot no longer remains to be proved--at least in the minds of J. August and his salesmen. The firm's advertisement in yesterday morning's CRIMSON declaring that two ties would be sold for the price of one occasioned a large patronage from the student body...
Barmat Scandal. For long it has been the practice of the German Government departments to invest their idle funds. Under the Bauer (Socialist) regime (June, 1919?Mar., 1920), the Ministry of Posts, which always has the largest cash reserves, invested through the firm of Barmat Brothers and other financial agents a large sum. The Government received in return questionable securities...
...compelled to tolerate the presence of an objectionable member because of legal restraint, so the Exchange, which is a voluntary association, is equally free. Last year, the Exchange authorities called Nathan J. Miller,* senior partner of the Stock Exchange house of Miller& Co., on the carpet. His firm was found guilty of "washing stock,"-i.e., making fictitious sales without real change of ownership-in the shares of the Southern States Oil Company on the Curb Market, and promptyl expelled from the Stock Exchange. Mr. Miller secured a temporary injunction to this order. But this injunction has recently been dissolved...
...Provinces to be governed by the same laws as is the rest of France and that was indeed its policy. But the Alsatians and Lorrainers resisted. The old laws which they had enjoyed under Kaiser Wilhelm were good enough for them. Never would they give them up. Such a firm stand embarrassed Premier Herriot who announced that French laws would progressively be applied to the two Provinces. That pronouncement, in turn, was met with stonewall opposition. In the past week, Premier Herriot made the startling discovery that the Concordat concluded between the Vatican and Napoleon in 1801 was still...
...Wiedfeldt, retiring to look after the firm of Krupps...