Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaigns of 1930 and 1932. Kansas' once-potent Democrat Arthur Mullen got him appointed Internal Revenue Commissioner in 1933 over considerable objection by Republican Senators. Though he compromised last week with one famed income tax evader (see col. 2), Commissioner Helvering has distinguished himself chiefly by his firm stand against tax compromises...
Aside from the danger to a none too firm credit position, the veto could and should be invoked on moral and social grounds. No group has ever been so favored and pampered as the bloc of veterans and pseudo-veterans. Some historians say that the present liberality, graft, and falsification makes post Civil War governments look like pikers. The government is now spending an average of nearly three thousand dollars for each soldier killed or wounded in action--compared to less than 25 dollars in any wartime nation. Courageous leadership is absolutely necessary if the nation is to be saved...
...canvas was finished by the end of the second summer, he called it Matinee de Septembre and sent it to the Salon of 1912 where it won a medal of honor and very little public attention. Hunting for a purchaser, Artist Chabas shipped it to the U. S. art firm of Braun & Co., then on West 46th St., Manhattan. It almost certainly would never have been known as more than a good piece of sentimental painting were it not for a famed Manhattan reformer...
Among the law firms which conducted Baush's case was the Stamford one of Cummings & Lockwood, of which Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings used to be a partner. Lawyer Cummings has had a feud with Aluminum since 1925 when he argued a case against the company and lost. At the long Hartford trial Lawyer Mark W. Norman of Mr. Cummings' old firm, and other Baush attorneys, once again sought to prove two stock charges: 1) that Aluminum tried to monopolize interstate trade in virgin aluminum through a price agreement with foreign importers of the metal; 2) that...
...many a graduate has benefited nothing directly from the education which he, with idealistic and generous endowers, have paid for. Like certain types of preferred stock, the tutorial system is attended to only after all other issues. Sometimes the residue is very slight, or zero, but at least the firm does not go bankrupt...