Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Political machines are fueled by jobs, oiled by the hope of jobs to come. After four years of jobs to burn, the firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. entered the 1936 campaign with a machine high-powered, smooth-running, up-to-date. To compete with it, the new firm of Landon & Hamilton inherited a 1932 model apparatus, battered by its last two collisions with the Democratic juggernaut, rusted by inaction and despair. John Hamilton's job came nearer to being one of rebuilding than of repair...
...campaign functionary was stocky, bespectacled Hill Blackett, president of the potent Chicago advertising firm of Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc. Titled Director of Public Relations, his job was to broadcast the Republican message by radio, cinema and billboard...
...university away from the past and towards the coming years. What the future holds for Harvard, or indeed for the world, no one can accurately tell. But if the "university tradition" of the past gives indication of a healthy future, certainly Harvard starts her fourth century with a firm stride...
...citizens tempted by roadside signs offering SIGHTSEEING FLIGHTS- FIVE MINUTES FOR ONLY $1 last week had a stern object lesson. Taking off at night from a Pittsburgh airport with ten passengers who had each paid $1, a trimotored Stinson belonging to Pittsburgh Skyways, Inc., a sightseeing firm, had flown but two miles toward a nearby fair when two motors apparently failed. Plunging into a clump of thicket in inaccessible Buttermilk Hollow, it gushed a fountain of flame which incinerated the pilot, all except one passenger, a girl who jumped at the last minute before the crash, miraculously escaped injury...
...management, Davis lost, all told, some $3,500,000. Thus when Field's chairman, James O. McKinsey, last week put his signature to a contract conveying the Davis Store to Morris, Nathan, Louis & Joseph Goldblatt (for a carefully concealed price), Mr. McKinsey was, in effect, relieving his firm of a bucket with a hole in the bottom of it. Well did the Goldblatts know it. Nevertheless, this entry into State Street was a crown on their careers...