Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tobacco: Five payments over $15,000 in 1934; biggest. $41,454, to a Florida firm...
Neutral observers still believed last week that Dr. Berliner was honestly devoted to the interests of his firm, that he died naturally of a heart attack. While the Socialists ruled Vienna, he lent money to the Socialist Party, then, just to keep a sheet to windward, helped finance the Fascist Heimwehr of Prince von Starhemberg. And he is said to have lent money to the Nazis...
Into the Federal District Court in Cleveland last week marched SEC attorneys, charging Otis & Co., among other things, with having rigged the market in the stock of Murray Ohio Manufacturing Co. For Cyrus Eaton's Cleveland banking firm, which is trying with some success to stage a comeback from its Depression deflation, the SEC suit was vastly annoying. If SEC succeeds in building up a case against the firm, it will be on technicalities, since Otis customers have made money in Murray stock. Most of the stock was bought from large Murray shareholders, distributed to Otis customers at from...
Before Richard Leo Simon and M. (for Max) Lincoln Schuster formed a publishing firm in Manhattan a dozen years ago, nervous young Simon had been a salesman for Aeolian pianos, shrewd young Schuster a newshawk who played the violin for fun. Though they never play together, Publishers Simon & Schuster are both still impassioned amateurs of music. Lately it became evident that the duet, whose profitable puzzle-&-game volumes set the book-publishing business by its ears, was venturing into the stodgy realm of music publishing...
Last November "Essandess," as Simon & Schuster sign their chirrupy advertisements, came out with the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas newly edited by Pianist Artur Schnabel. Last January the firm hired a music editor, German-born Emil Hilb, who conducted the Denver Philharmonic in 1932-33. Last week Simon & Schuster published "Four Operatic Masterpieces"*-excerpts from Carmen, Faust, Tannhduser, II Trovatore, transcribed for players of average ability by Pianist Leopold Godowsky. Handsomely illustrated and containing notes on opera plots and composers, the venture, if it clears expenses, will belie Simon & Schuster's assertion that music publishing is for them no more...