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Word: firmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah's ursine figure and mighty voice have lately been seen and heard by great and demonstrative masses of the electorate. He it was who put a firm quietus upon the "farm revolt" at the Kansas City convention. He it is who is reckoned as Nominee Hoover's most formidable stump spokesman. A fortnight ago he appeared in Minneapolis on the heels of Nominee Smith. Some 14,000 loudly cheering persons jammed into an auditorium to hear him pound at the Brown Derby's position on the Lakes-to-Sea waterway and the farm problem. He also defended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Robbed | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...president of the Association is a member of the firm of Coffin and Burr, dealers in investment securities. He is a director of several corporations as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALLSTON BURR TO HEAD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD DURING 1928-29 | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

...spite of the unpleasant and sordid details which may creep into view during the current struggle for the leadership of the nation, the avowed determinations of the Moguls of each of the major parties to keep a firm hand and a vigilant eye upon their respective war chests is somewhat of a compensation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURSES IN POLITICS | 10/9/1928 | See Source »

...Roosevelt, after graduating from Columbia University Law School in 1907, practiced with a New York firm until 1910. Then, after three years in the New York Senate he resigned to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALSH, ROOSEVELT TO TALK AT UNION | 10/9/1928 | See Source »

Seat. Samuel Ungerleider, 43, like many young Hungarian Jews who migrated to the U. S. before the War, went first into the liquor business here, at Wheeling, W. Va., and Bridgeport, Ohio. In 1920 he organized his brokerage and investment banking firm at Cleveland. Last week he sold for a nominal sum his seat on the New York Stock Exchange to Emil Jay Roth of Cleveland, his nephew. Tyro member Roth was 21 last July 4, and is the youngest member ever admitted to the New York exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Oct. 8, 1928 | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

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