Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State (who took him to The Hague Peace Conference in 1907), John Foster Dulles had long found his deepest interests in the church and the law. He attended the Paris peace talks of 1919, then settled back to a lifetime career in Manhattan's international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also became a driving force in the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. But when the Republicans urged him to make the race against the Democrats' 71-year-old ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Dulles finally agreed. Said Dulles: "My own conscience...
...Laurent, the man who must deal with Canada's economic quandary, is Prime Minister of Canada almost in spite of himself. Before joining the government in 1941, he was one of the Dominion's top corporation lawyers, a man who started as a junior partner in a Quebec law firm at $50 a month and steadily built his earnings to nearly $50,000 a year. His only interests along the way had been the law and his family. A new interest was injected one night in 1941 by a long-distance call from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...Laurent's law firm occupied ten rooms in the Price Building, Quebec City's only skyscraper. St. Laurent was elected president of the Canadian Bar Association and ranked by lawyers throughout the country as one of the three best in Canada...
When the company began to run out of money, Barbour found an angel in American Research & Development Corp., a venture-capital group of hardheaded New England businessmen (TIME, Aug. 19, 1946). With $150,000 of American Research's money, and the stock issue, Tracerlab was put on firm footing...
Since the farmer seldom comes to Wall Street, the firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane has decided to bring Wall Street to the farmer.- Explained Merrill Lynch's Des Moines manager Mike Dearth: "The farmer has made a hell of a lot of dough in the last few years. It ought to be put to work...