Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting Heaman expressed his disapproval of a survey on four grounds: 1) that it would cost too much money; 2) that no firm of experts was available in the area; 3) that machinery for examination already existed in the form of House Food Committees and Visiting Committees; and finally 4) that an investigation would imply official inefficiency, would give the Dining Halls administration bad publicity, and lower the morale among the staff...
...course to the State Department has followed a different route from that of Hay, Root, or Hughes, who had a firm belief in a set of established philosophical values. Acheson belongs to a more experimental school. Like his friends, Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter, and their own precursor, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he is more apt to believe that ethical and legal principles can not be so rigidly fixed; their touchstone is whether an action appears to be good in the light of the needs of the day. It was and is a philosophy generally regarded as "civilized," and Dean Acheson...
...read treatises on precious stones, used jewelers' tools to break up or remake stolen jewelry. To avoid the underworld markdown on hot goods, he printed up cards which bore his name and the legend "Felix P. Jacobson Co., 5 South Wabash, Chicago, Ill."-an active firm whose name he had simply appropriated. He posed as a legitimate salesman and always demanded list prices for stones...
Teeth In the Harbor. With the champ gone, the Tory seconds swarmed in on Bevan like an army of Lilliputians-but in vain. Why and how, they wanted to know, had Bevan come to be so inaccurate in his estimates. Protested one Tory: "If a business firm or a contractor made such a ghastly error, he would go bankrupt...
...governors, who had sacked Olivier with his two fellow directors of the Old Vic, had nothing to say in public about his successes, though a spokesman purred: "We . . . shall always welcome him." Meanwhile, Olivier bubbled with plans of his own. Next month he expects to launch his own firm, Laurence Olivier Productions, with a new James M. Bridie play starring Dame Edith Evans. Tied down to his present busy Old Vic schedule until July, Olivier will neither act in the new show nor direct it, but next season he intends to keep busy as angel, manager, director and star...