Word: firming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grandson of the famed Builder-President of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., Mr. Garrett, with his younger brother Robert, is partner in the banking firm of Robert Garrett & Sons, one of Baltimore's oldest and most trusted houses. He was graduated from Princeton in 1895. At 29, he entered the U. S. foreign service, served as secretary of legation at The Hague, moved on to the embassies at Berlin and Rome. In 1910 he was advanced to ministerial rank, representing the U. S. in Venezuela, later in the Argentine...
...could speak for a vast rural constituency, had declared stock trading on thin margin was not gambling, was therefore not immoral. One reason for his vigorous declaration in behalf of Wall Street stock business was that he himself had been caught playing the market through a bucket-shop firm, now closed...
Because most Irish homes and nearly all Irish huts are now lit by candles and primitive flame lamps, the Shannon River Power Plant is only one phase of a bold, nationwide electrification program now being carried through by the mighty Berlin firm of Siemens-Schuckert...
...business because an Irish youth, T. A. McLaughlin. who graduated by Dublin University after the War, went job-hunting to Berlin, signed on with Siemens-Schuckert, dazzled his German bosses with talk of the profits they could make electrifying Ireland's Shannon. First in the field for his firm with ideas and plans, smart Dr. T. A. McLaughlin was able to sell the Free State Government his idea, is now actively in charge of the whole $35.000,000 development...
Aghast at the price rumor was Godfrey Locker-Lampson, M. P., Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the recently-ousted Baldwin Cabinet. His family had long owned the bust. He had lately sold it to a dealer for "just over $2,500." Said he: ''The firm . . . resold it, I understand, for a modest profit...