Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earlier in the week potent Chancellor Chamberlain delivered to London's Conservative 1900 Club a speech which was generally considered so pro-Italian, so anti-Ethiopian that it watered down almost completely the British National Government's formerly firm resolve to buck up the League of Nations and enforce its decisions...
...Thomas had been an intimate friend of the late King George, and as the London Times said: "Let no one withhold a measure of sympathy from Thomas himself and the family concerned.... In the crisis of 1931 he [Thomas] was one of only two or three men who stood firm in the midst of political chaos and made possible the National Government which staved off disaster...
...objecting to this scheme, which in effect would solidly continue the Journal's present highly successful management, the Wahls and Mrs. Pierce told the Milwaukee court that the suggested price of $3,500 a share was too low, that the same legal firm represents both trustees and prospective purchasers, that the trustees have made no effort to find other buyers for the stock. County appraisers, whose findings are subject to court review, said the stock was worth $5,000 a share...
...governors, Thaddeus Reamy ("Brick") Benson, 51, was elected president of the Chicago Stock Exchange to succeed Michael J. O'Brien, a local partner of Paine, Webber & Co., who had held the post thrice. White-haired President Benson got his start in his father's real estate firm, shifted to American Can Co., later went into roofing. A broker since 1910, he became senior partner of F. M. Zeiler & Co. in 1923. Handsome, humorous, immaculately dressed, "Brick" Benson likes to fish, play golf, lives in suburban Winnetka. Asked about the outlook for U. S. securities, Broker Benson declared...
Visiting the U. S. as usual for a week before the Derby was Sidney Freeman of the London bookmaking firm of Douglas Stuart, Ltd., to buy up Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes tickets that might win prizes. After the race was over, Broker Freeman cheerily announced that-unlike the last two trips, which resulted in substantial losses for his firm-his $750,000 purchases had brought '"Duggie" a handsome profit. Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes tickets cost $2.50 each. Of this, $1 goes into the Hospital Fund and operating expenses, the remainder into prizes. Twenty major prizes, a total...