Word: firming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fallon went into court to fight the I. C. C.'s order. The great railroads of the land clustered about the midget line in friendly fashion. St. Louis' lawyer Daniel N. Kirby represented the O'Fallon, Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan's famed law firm of Cravath de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, represented the big-brother carriers. The I. C. C. accepted the challenge, named Chicago's Walter L. Fisher, Taft-time Secretary of the Interior, to fight its legal battle. Before a Federal Court at St. Louis, the O'Fallon contended that...
...unpaid. Mr. Simmons must keep a substitute on the Exchange floor to represent his firm. Longest previous presidency was that of Henry G. S. Noble...
...into an ash can. At a slightly more advanced age he got through Harvard-in two years, with Phi Beta Kappa, the John Harvard Scholarship and, on his diploma, summa cum laude. A little after that he passed from the Harvard Law School to the prominent Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. With a teriffic capacity for work, he was a partner at 25. Now in his early forties, a thickset, rusty-haired gentleman, his capacity for work is undiminished...
Graduated from the Columbia Law School in 1898, Mr. Stone first became a professor there, then went into the law firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone, returning to Columbia in 1910 to serve as the Law School's dean. In 1924 President Coolidge, who never forgot a good man, called him to Washington, made him Attorney-General, asked him to ventilate thoroughly the Department of Justice after Harry Micajah Daugherty. Within a year President Coolidge advanced him to the Supreme Court to succeed Justice Joseph McKenna, resigned...
...should keep their motor cars and what sort to buy when replacement becomes necessary are two questions which Their Britannic Majesties answered last week by setting an example. They have used their three personal cars for five years. They took delivery of three more, last week, from the impeccable firm of Hooper, carriage and motor-body builders to Royalty...