Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, on the twelfth day of headlong Chairman Biddle's term, a bill of complaint in equity was filed in Attorney General Cummings' name against the Houde Corp. in Federal Court in Buffalo. In three different ways the Government asked that the firm be judicially directed to deal with the A. F. of L. union alone. Houde was given 20 days to answer. Thus was the stage set for the first round of the first legal test of the Labor Relations Board's collective bargaining creed, a test the final round of which would undoubtedly...
...Francis Biddle has not confined his activities since school days exclusively to the law. He has written a novel about Philadelphia (The Lanfear Pattern), book reviews, short stories. He has also busied himself in the interests of international amity and social justice for minorities. A member of the law firm of Barnes, Biddle & Myers, he even went so far as to undertake a case in behalf of some Pennsylvania dairy farmers against...
...idlers are about to be tossed out of Manhattan's non-existent Ritz-Plaza Hotel for failure to pay their board bill when one, a composite photographer by trade, hits upon the idea of manufacturing with his lens the most beautiful girl in the U. S. A laxative firm is offering $2,500 for her picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer's elbows, Claudette Colbert's knees, Marlene Dietrich's legs. The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high...
...Arkansas railroad junction. Once he sold eight boxes of strawberries to the late great John L. Sullivan. When he wanted to learn law, young Reyburn persuaded the University of Arkansas to hold its lectures at night. At 27 he took hold of a small private banking & real estate firm, expanding it into Little Rock's big Union Trust Co. Few years ago Mr. Reyburn resigned from Lord & Taylor's presidency to devote more time to his job as head of the parent company, $40,000,000 Associated Dry Goods...
...years ago to give all his time to his own manuscripts. The late Enoch Arnold Bennett described Swinnerton: "He tells authors what they ought to do and ought not to do. He is marvelously and terribly particular and fussy about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings really do interest him. And misprints-especially when he has read the proofs himself-give him neuralgia and even worse afflictions. . . . Medium height, medium looks, medium clothes, somewhat reddish hair, and lively eyes...