Word: firming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carrying out a tradition more than a century old, His Majesty's Faithful House of Commons petitioned George V to bestow "some signal mark of favor" on the retiring Speaker of the House, firm, courteous, precise John Henry Whitley (TIME, July...
...firm, courteous, precise way John Henry Whitley informed both King and Country, last week, that he will not accept a peerage. "My reasons," he said, "are personal...
...favor of Cardinal Mercier's inscription. Students of the University, even the workmen who built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come up to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If seventy million Germans wept for a thousand years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France...
...rich and feverishly busy potentate, with his offices at No. 170 Broadway jammed with speculators. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1919 when the German mark was behaving in a dizzy manner. A bankrupt. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1923 when the German mark went shooting down to nothing. His firm failed for more than $7,000,000. He paid creditors $5,000,000 of what he owed them with his own fortune and with some money that the Mixed Claims Commission awarded his firm. Then the courts said, last summer, that he need pay no more...
...Leopold Zimmermann is a man who pays back every cent. He re-opened the firm of Zimmermann & Forshay and has already used the profits to pay $100,000 of the remaining $2,000,000. He keeps a list of the old creditors on his desk, smiles sternly as he checks off names. He lives with his wife in a two-room hotel suite costing $1,400 a year, rides to work at 8 a. m. on the subway. He has no children, no partners. He swears he will tear up that list on his desk before he dies. That...