Word: firming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Garrulous, white bearded Mr. Smith, famed as Alfred Aloysius "Trader Horn," reached England, last week, on the S. S. Carmania, having voyaged from Manhattan with Richard Simon, a partner of the firm of Simon and Schuster, his publishers. Up to last week 168,000 copies of Mr. Smith's colorful autobiography, Trader Horn, had been sold. He, proud independent, left the U. S. without yielding to a single one of numerous tempting offers from advertisers who wanted to pay "Trader Horn" for endorsing their products...
...sense the projects envisioned before the luncheon in Milan, last week, interested observers turned to a report on the Italian hydro-electric industry which was issued recently by Signor Giacinto Motta, managing director of the great firm which produces 30% of the electricity used by Italians, namely the Edison General Italian Electric Co. of Milan. Brisk and explicit, Signor Motta keynotes thus...
...Exchange. In Amsterdam the buzz of tickers ceased to have meaning, last week, for Mevrouw Van Eeghen. Removed to a hospital, she lay at first unconscious, and later sphinxlike by advice of her attorneys. Her husband, forgotten by the press, had been a rich, respected rubber merchant of the firm of Matthes & Bormeester...
Skinner's Big Idea. Three loyal dotards had to be fired. Skinner (Bryant Washburn), young, newly elected member of the firm had to discharge them as his first duty. Instead he imported a stenographer, peppy, once a showgirl (Martha Sleeper). Stimulated, the dotards grew chipper, chirrupy. One bought a toupeé, all bought brassies. Skinner's big fresh idea results in the retention of dotards; in a picture feeble, mild as goose milk...
Elected. James Dinsmore Tew, 45, vice president of the B. F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio; to be president of the corporation. A factory employee in 1906, Mr. Tew in twelve years became superintendent of the Akron plant, then works manager, vice president and general sales manager of the firm. He succeeds Harry Hough, who resigned last week, president since last September, when chairman and president Bertram G. Work died in Europe (TIME, Oct. 10). The chairman of the company, since the death of Bertram G. Work, has been David M. Goodrich, son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, for whom...