Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly ten years younger than Franklin so that, although they knew each other from childhood, they were not at that time good friends. From 1907 on, while Vincent, an ungainly boy, was still in school at Newport, Franklin Roosevelt was already a budding young lawyer, working for the Manhattan firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn. In that capacity he helped look after many legal details connected with the huge real estate holdings of Vincent's father, John Jacob Astor...
...Johnson got him to withdraw his resignation. Labor man he is but he does not rub shoulders with the labor men whom open-shop industrialists most dislike and distrust. Nor is he a believer in the regimentation of industry. In Washington he has been an anomaly, for he is firmly pro-labor and equally firm in believing that labor fares best under a sound capitalistic system...
...named Lieut.-Colonel Luis Sanchez Cerro and overthrew the government. The Leguias were thrown into jail, charged with a list of peculations long as their pedigree, a list that reached all the way to Washington where it was testified before a Senate committee that the Manhattan firm of J. & W. Seligman & Co. had paid Juan Leguia a "fee" of $415,000 for the privilege of lending $100,000,000 to Peru. All those bonds are now in default...
...Berkeley's Board, firm in its own convictions, last week had plenty of outside support. With 18 schools closed, San Francisco had 18,200 pupils on halftime. Oakland was looking over its buildings. Los Angeles had found 275 buildings unsafe, pitched many a tent. A Permanent Committee on Earthquake Protection was at work under famed Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan. And University of California's Seismology Professor Perry Byerly declared: "It would be advisable if every city in California were as much concerned as Berkeley...
...five good lengths. Thomond II was third and Forbra fourth, with six others, from the field of 30, plunging slowly in behind them. For the hardest steeplechase in the world, the turf on Aintree's 4½ mile brush-and-water course last week was firm and springy from a rain the day before. Golden Miller's time (9:20 2/5) was a record, nearly 8 sec. better than Kellsboro Jack's last year. Except for the failure of the favorite-which is almost an Aintree tradition -last week's race was run truer to form...