Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These family details stirred a storm of denials. Onetime Senator Smoot of Salt Lake City asserted he had "no connection whatever" with Western Air, knew nothing of his son's connection. Lawyer Lehr Fess. in Toledo, declared that his firm was counsel for National Air Transport in Ohio, had merely done "the usual routine work...
Words, however, could not conjure away the rotting carcass on the beach at Querqueville. Perhaps, someone suggested, it was the Loch Ness monster (TIME, Jan. 15) sighted last December in Inverness Harbor heading out to sea. But on that subject Professor Corbiere was firm. "Non!" he cried. "Nae!" echoed a thousand voices from Scotland, where six workmen promptly reported having seen the monster thrashing through Loch Ness "at a terrific rate...
Directors in this French-controlled armament firm joined with Fritz Thyssen, German steel man and armament maker, in contributing money which helped Hitler to power. Putative reason: because Hitler was the one man most likely to stir up war in Europe, thus increase armament orders, armament dividends. After Hitler became Chancellor, French newspapers controlled by armorers screamed for more armaments because he threatened French "security...
...Russians to fish certain waters. After the Russian Revolution, Japanese fishermen stampeded into all the best fishing grounds, exported their crab catch largely to the U. S., their salmon catch to Britain. Not until 1928, when an eight-year Fishing Convention was signed, did the Soviet Government get a firm restraining hand on this fat traffic. This treaty gave the Japanese exclusive rights to certain waters, especially those near the canneries they had built on Russian soil. It kept them absolutely out of other bays, inlets and river mouths. It required Japanese bidders to buy and deposit Russian bonds...
...speech celebrating Olivet's 90th birthday. Son of a Grand Rapids banker, delicately dapper President Brewer took degrees a Dartmouth and Oxford, was private secretary to the late Editor John St. Lot-Strachey of the London Spectator for four years, helped found the short-lived Manhattan publishing firm of Brewer, Warren & Putnam...