Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...physical description given by apartment attendants: medium height, stocky, mustached. Out of sight though he kept himself, the "Jersey Zaharoff" was nevertheless well represented in print by statements handed out during the week at his office. To Roosevelt's threat of new legislation, Mr. Cuse had these firm and practical last words: "Whatever new laws may be passed in the future, the fact remains that my company has purchased commercial airplanes for shipment to a country with which we are not at war, on the strength of and in compliance with the existing laws of our country...
...reasons for removing Dr. Frank are no more valid than those set forth by the regents of the university Wednesday morning it may well be assumed that the desire of the state administration to secure a more firm control over the university by the insertion of a more pliable man is the motive prompting the move to oust Frank rather than any action, inaction or failing on his part...
Announced last week was a notable name-change in the big family of U. S. investment banking houses. After the turn of the year the up-&-coming young firm of Field, Glore & Co. will be known as Glore, Forgan & Co. No new partners will enter the firm, no old ones depart. The change is simply belated recognition of a situation which has existed since the summer of 1935, when Marshall Field III retired from the business. Since then the two senior partners have been Charles Foster Glore and James Russell Forgan...
...name Forgan, new to the firm's stationery, is far from new to Chicagoans. Partner Forgan's father was the late David Robertson Forgan, founder of Chicago's old National City Bank. His uncle was the late great James Berwick Forgan, longtime head of Chicago's First National. One of Partner Forgan's cousins is executive vice president of First National today (James B. Forgan Jr.). Another cousin is an assistant vice president of Manhattan's National City Bank (Robert Forgan). The elder Forgans were Scots from St. Andrews, immigrants...
...time Marshall Field decided to quit, his firm had achieved financial maturity. It is generally understood that he left his money in the business with no strings attached in the form of special or limited partnership interests. Glore, Forgan & Co. will start the new year as one of the top underwriting houses of the country...