Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order is reacting to and against the new. And the old order started back in the years B. C. It is pretty well organized now, and it isn't just last-ditchers who will stand by it. The teeth of legislative acts will be set in firm gums and a square, matured jaw. Dartmount Daily
...many years the firm of Kouchakji Frères has had a practical monopoly on excavations on the site of ancient Antioch, the city in Asia Minor where Christians were first called by that name. In 1910 a party of Arab workmen who had often been employed by the Kouchakjis came upon a heap of buried treasure that contained, among other things, a cross, three book covers and two chalices all of silver and all of excellent workmanship. The finders, with a shrewd idea of their worth, traded cross, covers and chalices to a syndicate of Arab merchants, who after...
Engaged. Millard E. Tydings, 45, U. S. Senator from Maryland since 1927. Democrat, firm foe of the New Deal; and Mrs. Eleanor Davies Cheeseborough, Washington socialite, daughter of Joseph Edward Davies, onetime (1915-16) Federal Trade Commission Chairman...
...salaried men of business. The salaries had been filed with the request that they be considered confidential, but SEC rated them as matters of public interest and therefore not to be concealed. Date of publication coincided with the Congress of American Industry (see p. 67) meeting in Manhattan; featured firm was General Motors whose President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was keynoter of the industrialists' session. Top salaries at Bethlehem Steel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Corn Products. 86 other corporations were also dragged out for public view...
Henry M. Rogers '62, oldest alumnus of Harvard College, yesterday east back over his activities of the last 97 years and his experiences as Union soldier, writer, world traveler, and lawyer. Rogers is still active in a Boston law firm, and keeps in close touch with the world, regretting that he can not work more than 24 hours...