Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President intervened and proud Mr. Weir went to the White House. There he remained polite and firm. When the President au- thorized the Labor Board to hold its own election Mr. Weir refused to supply a list of employes. Nor would Mr. Weir recognize the officials of the A. F. of L. Steel Union. For a showdown on a question of principle, the Labor Board finally cited him to the Attorney General for failure to permit it to hold an orderly election. Now the case will be settled in court. If Mr. Weir wins it will be a sad setback...
Three dates, each five years apart, are epochal in the life of Raoul Dufy. In 1895, one of nine children of a bourgeois family in Havre, he first began to paint as relaxation from clerking in an importing firm. In 1900 he went to Paris, studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under pompous Père Léon Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse...
Other Bolinas folk were lucky too, and soon about 300 lb. had been amassed. Then followed days of dreadful suspense. All Bolinas could not scrape together $15 for a professional analysis of its treasure. Finally last week the San Francisco Examiner got a local firm of chemists to test a sample of the Pepper find. It, too, assayed 70% ambergris...
Meantime Emory Evans Smith, head of the chemical firm which had analyzed the Pepper sample, was having other emotions. Last week he had to crush the hopes of 35 eager-eyed people who brought him soap, potatoes, sponges, sewage, a dead rat. Nor was he optimistic about the ones who had found what seemed to be ambergris. First, he warned, he had tested only a sample. It was by no means sure that all the stuff was ambergris. Even if it were, there might be no ready market for so much of it. Used to "fix" the odors of other...
...serving his fourth term as president, Broker Hudson is head of Hudson Sons Co., a direct successor to his father's concern which once had a firm grasp on the whole U. S. salt business. Broker Hudson went west from Ohio by easy stages, helped found the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, moved to San Francisco at the century's turn. He claims that never in his 78 years of life did he advise a customer to buy or sell a share of stock, holding to the West Coast tradition that every man has an inalienable right...