Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Name, please?" whispers the aide, and repeats the answer to the President, who says "Good evening" and gives the guest's hand one firm vibrant grip, with a little final jerk which draws the guest in front of the First Lady almost before he can realize that his moment has come and passed. The First Lady repeats her husband's greeting and offers her hand...
Died. Reuben H. Donnelley, 64, of Chicago, chairman of the board of the Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (publishers of directories), vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (TIME'S printers); in Chicago. In 1905 Mr. Donnelley was a partner in a stock brokerage firm which went bankrupt. The firm paid 27? on the dollar, was free of debt, legally. But Partner Donnelley felt obligations, morally. Twenty-two years later, he repaid his creditors with interest, a sum of more than...
...come to sell you something you will be much more likely to buy it from the fellow you look on as a friend. Apart from learning local conditions, try to learn the language, because you will sell the thing better in that way. If the 'boss' of the firm can go out and do business, he will sell his goods very much better than by leaving it to other people...
...interested spectator during the crusade against the "Money Trust" at that time was Dwight Whitney Morrow. He was then a member of an old Manhattan law firm. In 1914 he became a partner of J. P. Morgan...
Thus the grandsire of today's J. P. Morgan actually coined Hearst Editor Brisbane's famed slogan: "Don't sell the country short." Mr. Junius Spencer Morgan had participated in the dry-goods business at Boston, Mass, before he removed to London and founded the English firm of J. S. Morgan & Co. Later, this became Morgan, Grenfell & Co., which is today the London office of Morgan...