Word: firming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Senate's drilling into the Oil Scandal, having slipped momentarily from the firm, legalistic hand of Inquisitor Walsh, emitted several brief sidespouts more spectacularly stupid than significant...
...commands of the operator. The cure of alcoholics and drug addicts is effected by replacing the desire for drink or drugs with a desire for health. Such a sermon would not be listened to under ordinary circumstance ; during hypnosis the ideas not only sink in but take a firm hold and reappear at the appointed time to function in consciousness without so much as a by your leave...
...discouraging years he "practiced," until accident confronted him with John Wanamaker, the Founder.*Lawyer Nevin was better at real estate than the Founder himself; when the owner died, Lawyer Nevin was made Vice President of everything, all around. Directorships followed, automatically. Wilful-faced, 200 pound, 6 ft. 2 in., firm chinned, wideshouldered Attorney Nevin became master last week of Wanamaker's interests in the U. S. and the world, to wit: Wanamaker's stores in Philadelphia, New York, Paris, Tokyo; A. T. Stewart Realty Co., Manhattan...
AMBITION - Arthur Train - Scribner's ($2.50). Simon Kent gets along in the world. Why? 1) He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and an asset to a law firm that handles shady cases for a potent oil corporation; 2) his wife knows how to mix cocktails for his employer. After four years, Simon gets tired of getting along, particularly when he finds out that his wife had duped him into marriage after having an illegitimate child by another man. Honest, basically upright Simon obtains a divorce, a wholesome job, a new and true wife. Author Train tells...
...agent for the Cosulich Line, Italian shipping concern, last week confirmed reports of the purchase by his family of control of the Lloyd Triestino Puglia Line, the Maritime Italiana Line and one of the two largest shipyards in Italy. This acquisition makes the Cosulich Line the largest Italian shipping firm, with a fleet of 105 ocean-going vessels, aggregating 460,000 gross tons, operating to and fro between Italy and North America, South America, the Near East, Egypt, India, Japan, and China...