Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Staff Work. This year the political firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. approaches the November election in a high state of hope. The head of the firm, despite sporadic booing, remains extraordinarily popular with customers who must be resold. His health holds up as well as his glowing confidence. His campaign will be simple: "Things are getting better & better. We planned it that way. Let's have four years more of Democratic Recovery." The Party debt has been cleared away and millions of voters living on government bounty will not be allowed to forget who feeds them. And, above...
...much strength, to capture and consolidate much ground that is still highly debatable. This is exactly what Republicans hope that they will do when their candidate is picked at Cleveland. This, too, is exactly what Democrat Hurja & friends assume the Republicans will not be able to do, after the firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. really takes the field...
...were for the account of a company headed by Howeson, the pepper trading was done through Bishirgian & Co. Messrs. Bishirgian & Howeson started to play the shellac market late in 1933, switched to white pepper in 1934 with the idea of cornering the world supply. By that summer the Howeson firm was loaded up with some $2,000,000 worth of shellac and about $5,000,000 worth of pepper-to be paid for in the future...
...bent and the roughed lips are popping the question. Let him not forget who pays for the theatre tickets when two langorous eyes are pleading. It is the duty of every Harvard man, and every man throughout the country, to maintain his own integrity this year, to be firm in the face of the fiercest or most insidiously tender appeals, and find himself, on the night of December thirty-first when this year climbs into history, still a self-respecting bachelor...
...larger radio station owners have not had their partisan animosities seriously aroused. But, if ever such feeling should rise in the future, the American public should resist any effort at repeal of the law as they would an abolition of equal suffrage. An impartial Communications Commission should become as firm an American institution as the Bill of Rights...