Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only the smallest vogue, losing money cheerfully in the larger interest of music. They printed modernists, when "nobody" wanted a page of the modernists. In particular they published the .works of the new school of Italian modernist composers. These had been unable to get publication in Italy. Firms like Ricordi and Sozogno limit themselves chiefly to opera publications, where the profits are probable and large, and let these crazy modernist fellows severely alone. But today the Italian modernists are enjoying quite a vogue throughout the world. The head of the Universal Edition of Vienna, which with Breitkopf and Hertal...
...Tracy group stress the desirability of retaining for the Company the services of Mr. Willys, and its plan is endorsed by J. P. Cotton, counsel for the first preferred stock-holders of the bankrupt concern. The Thompson faction is assisted by the investment banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co., Manhattan...
James M. Beck, Solicitor General of the U. S.: "Speaking before the Hall of Gray's Inn, London, I hailed the U. S. Supreme Court as 'a great lighthouse standing firm even when furious storms of discontent lash the national waters.' Lord Justice Adkins, who presided, mentioned the Court's one-hour time limit for counsels' speeches, and said he had known great English advocates who would find an hour insufficient to get within speaking distance of the real point. Much laughter greeted this sally...
...pictures in the collection of Sir Joseph Robinson, millionaire mine operator of South Africa, brought $938,178 at Christie's - the largest sum ever realized in a single day's sale at the famous old London firm. The top price of $88,920 was fetched by Frans Hals' Portrait of a Gentleman, 19 times what it cost in 1885 when it left the de Zoete collection. The Hals is 45¼ by 35¼ inches, and shows a noble standing figure with pointed beard, ruff, black costume and hat, yellow gloves. None of the pictures are likely...
...expected that Mr. Leffingwell's immediate duties in J. P. Morgan & Co. will be in connection with the British payment of her U. S. war debt which the firm will handle as fiscal agent for Great Britain. This work will take years to consummate and unnusual financial ability to direct. Mr. Leffingwell's knowledge of official Washington should greatly assist him in this new task...