Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three times a year waddling Eskimo delegates, wild-eyed Yakuts, bland Mongols, swaggering Tartars and other elected representatives of the Russian peoples are given a good time in Moscow and sent home as soon as possible. Last week Dictator Josef Stalin staged one more picnic Parliament with his usual firm finesse...
...Compton believes in no such firm, almighty Divine Intelligence as do Scientists Einstein and Planck. A student of "indeterminism," he says that "natural phenomena do not obey exact laws.'' Physicists have tested the behavior of the smallest known units of matter and light, only to discover that their movements are unpredictable. This "complexity of small-scale events," leads Dr. Compton toward resolving the dilemma of freedom v. law, which is "as essential to the welfare of science as it is to the growth of religion." If a little photon of light can move capriciously...
Died. Henry Frederick Lippitt, 77, president and board chairman of Manville Jenckes Co., Rhode Island's largest ($39,000,000) textile firm, vice president of Cotton Textile Institute Inc., onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, yachtsman (his sloop Weetamoe won the Astor Cup in 1906); of a heart attack; in Providence...
Roosevelt & Son financed Cyrus Field's first transatlantic cable, floated James J. Hill's first railroad bonds and gained the undying enmity of Jay Gould for refusing to play his slippery games. In late years the firm has practically withdrawn from the underwriting field to specialize as a dealer in railroad and municipal issues. But what lifted Roosevelt & Son above the run-of-the-mill Wall Street houses was its unbiased investment counsel. Its clientele consisted largely of institutions, wealthy individuals and estates which turned over their portfolios to Roosevelt management. And Roosevelt management was good...
...have been greatly startled when his second cousin three times removed became the 32nd President of the U. S. But what would have given him a severe shock would have been the signing by any Roosevelt in the White House of a law which would split his venerable firm three ways...