Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before sallying forth, it would be well for the University to take stock of the situation. The roots of the spoils system are strong and firm. In these days of Curley and Roosevelt, the wilderness has won back much of the hard-fought ground gained by the first hardy pioneers, as recent reports of Civil Service League amply affirm. There are even some supposedly sane-minded observers who believe that the wilderness should be preserved for its original denizens, unscrupulous politicians, in order, we hear, to preserve the party system...
John Knowles Paine, the father of the Music Department, for whom Paine Hall was named, is credited with establishing the Department on the firm ground it rests upon today. Accepted as a valuable, even indispensable division of the University now, apparently there were tremendous obstacles in the path of its far-seeing founders. "Even so great a man as Francis Parkman," says Spalding, "an artist in his own sphere, is said to have been fond of exclaiming in Corporation meetings, after reading the annual budget, "Musica delenda...
...Techwood housing project. Maximum Debt. "In the spring of 1933 many of the great bankers of the United States flocked to Washington. They were there to get help of their Government in the saving of their banks from insolvency. . . . Every one of these gentlemen expressed to me the firm conviction that it was all well worth the price and that they heartily approved. In order to get their further judgment, however, I asked them what they thought the maximum national debt of the United States Government could rise to without serious danger to the national credit. Their answers-remember this...
...built a cosmetics factory in Russia, exhibited in the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, lost his money, started again from scratch in Los Angeles shortly afterward. Friendly, willing in the pioneer days of the cinema to deliver personally a 50? stick of grease paint, Factor established his business on the firm basis of getting exclusive endorsements for his products. Mabel Normand was once his No. 1 endorser. Today nearly every important cinemactress, except Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Miriam Hopkins, is on the Factor list. With 70 distribution plants throughout the world, Factor claims he is the leading cosmetics manufacturer...
...joint opinion, with the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Lawyer Pepper held the Public Utility Act unconstitutional, informing UGI directors: "Because we are convinced that this title cannot be sustained under the commerce power, the postal power or any other [power in the constitution], we have no hesitation in advising the United Gas Improvement Co. and its subsidiary holding companies to refuse to register under...