Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right." So he hung around the gate, waiting to say: "Hello, Helen! Hey, George! Hey, Will! Hey, little Paul! Come on in!" Whether the Rev. William Ashley Sunday went to Heaven last week no one on earth could tell. That he would go there was his firm conviction, voiced in many a revival sermon. Just how he would enter Heaven, whom he would find there, what he would say to Jesus and what Jesus would say to him he once told a Kansas City congregation in great detail (see above). Billy Sunday spoke frequently of his death. He exclaimed...
...Emanuel, is patriarch and senior partner, presides at meetings in the partners' room on the third floor of Lehman Bros, eleven-story building at No. 1 William St. Senior Partner Lehman has a collection of Madonnas which is probably worth even more than his interest in the firm...
Secretary of State Hull: Our foreign trade policy . . . has been a noble one -in the tradition of simon-pure old-fashioned Southern democracy. It has been conducted by a dependable gentleman of the old school, so stately, intelligent, kindly, honorable, and yet so firm . . . that it is hard to suggest that, in the circumstances, there might have been a better choice than Cordell Hull. . . . But in these hard-bitten days we needed a realist. . . . We had two outstanding Democratic world figures who answered that description-Bernard Baruch and Owen Young. ... On the economic side, our foreign policy is a failure...
Last week was a big week for French Impressionists in Manhattan art galleries. From their capacious cellars, the firm of Durand-Ruel pulled out 13 pictures by Claude Monet to make a show that was not only a résumé of the development of that Frenchman's own style but also a history of Impressionism. Starting with the grey, rather sharply painted Hyde Park, London (1870) and the blue and bright Canotiers à Argenteuil, done in 1875 in a technique that now seems more modern than his later work, the canvases trace Monet's growing absorption...
...went to work in a machine shop, spent long hours reading, studied German, taught his shopmates algebra. In addition, he took a correspondence course in shorthand. At 21 he became city editor of the Aurora (Ill.) Evening Post. A few years later found him in Chicago, working for a firm of investment counselors, editing the financial section of the Chicago Tribune. With the failure of Moore Brothers in 1896, in a situation ripe for panic, he was able to prevent the news from being handled in a sensational manner, won the favorable attention of financiers. As an assistant secretary...