Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knob-headed little intervener moved to withdraw his intervention. He was in court last week to explain his series of actions - so suggestive of a successful effort to bamboozle an overwrought man in love, especially since knob-head Stephenson plies the trade of managing clerk in a firm of London lawyers whose important clients unquestionably sided with the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin...
...disturbing news that two pickets of the A. F. of L.'s Exterminators & Fumigators' Union were parading before the street entrance below. Dismayed Mr. Lewis sent friends to see whether this labor dispute could not be settled. It was impossible. The pickets were protesting because the firm to which the swanky Biltmore lets out its cockroach killing employs non-union labor. Again John L. Lewis had no choice. He packed up his papers, asked to have the conference adjourned to the Engineers' Club...
...Lewis' cause no one who knew would tell. Certainly Steelman Taylor would not have acted without the advice and consent of the Morgan-Baker group which has dominated U. S. Steel since it was founded in 1901. And, as the World-Telegram pointed out, the "partners of that firm are known to have been very much impressed by the last Presidential election...
...personality of half-witted airport mascot and head of an international spy ring, Lorre busies himself with making Charlie Chan mutterances, intriguing to steal the United States' latest designs. As crack pilot of the commercial line, Brian Donlevy intrigues, to steal the same plans; Ralph Morgan, head of the firm, is having his wife and the plans stolen for him. Climax occurs after villainy discloses itself when they are all on board the airplane, with the plans, making a flight to Berlin...
Sympathy for individuals with special grievances ought not to sweep the Council off a firm footing. Though the latest investigation pops gently in cars tuned to cannon-like reports on Tutoring Schools and House Athletics, it shows now alive the body is to the troubles of the undergraduates. The same energy could well be hitched to heavier wagons than language probation...