Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guile with which he strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous occasions, he was no doubt deeply grateful to the Government last week for putting him in the way of what should be his fattest fee in years...
Meanwhile Hearstian Viscount Rothermere peppered Indian potentates with cablegrams urging them to "Stand firm against the Bill!" Since pudding-headed Rothermere seems fated to fail in all political maneuvers, the Chamber of Princes promptly reacted by intimating to British correspondents that they have no desire to kill the India Bill, merely hope to obtain amendments more favorable to their rights as potentates. Snorted British Elder Statesman Sir Austen Chamberlain: "Let it be understood that we are not willing to allow this House to be driven from what they think right or to enter into a Dutch auction for the support...
When Attorney General Cummings announced last year that he was going to bring criminal action against Mr. Mellon for fraud in his 1931 income tax return, the old Pittsburgh financier cried "Politics of the crudest sort!" Because Homer Cummings' law firm had handled many a damage suit against the Mellon-controlled Aluminum Co. of America, Mr. Mellon openly accused him of personal animus in going after more taxes. To "General" Cummings' embarrassment, a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh refused to indict its fellow-townsman for any criminality on his tax returns. Mr. Mellon promptly countercharged that, by failing...
...marched perkily to work, told a radio audience, "I'm not going to let this go to my head." Each day at Belden & Co. he grabbed his "fan mail" first, cashed the small money orders from people who thought he had not been rewarded enough. He suspected the firm of withholding his mail as it began to dwindle, as his name faded out of the newspapers. Last week Frank Grigoris began knocking at his own door, telling himself to come in, began rushing into the street and bumping into strangers...
...defining the "company union" as a union organized on the initiative of the employer and dominated by him. Yet to make the question thoroughly debatable and to reach the fundamental issues, it chose to define the company union as a union limited to the employees of a single firm. The no-decision nature of the debate may or may not have influenced the method of argument, but the teams did reach the real issues...