Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elder J. P. Morgan partners ate their dinners elsewhere, but the firm sent young S. Parker Gilbert, whilom Agent General for Reparations, to a banquet at Manhattan's tall-towered Waldorf-Astoria last week for Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...week the Boston Transcript reported that President Angell will retire "probably on or about his 66th birthday in 1935," may be succeeded by the university's Provost, Historian Charles Seymour, 48, author of The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. In New Haven, this rumor was dismissed with the firm expectation that President Angell would continue active for at least four years...
...Ambassador to the U. S., presented the Smithsonian Institution in Washington with a two-foot replica of George Washington's home at Mt. Vernon, made of mother-of-pearl and 13,000 pearls. A gift of Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese cultivated pearl tycoon, it had been part of his firm's exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair...
...Hampshire State championship. Last week his devotion to the game brought its high reward when he was nominated for the presidency of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association with election in February a foregone conclusion. The selection of Mr. Hall, now a part ner in the Wall Street firm of Callaway, Fish & Co., was applauded by many a tennist not only because he is an active tournament player, but because he achieved high rank in his day against practical difficulties. In all his career he took only two weeks vacation each year, made it coincide with the dates...
...knowing what to do with the derelict Trust, bankers called in the great engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter to find out whether it should be salvaged or scrapped. A younger brother and junior partner of the founder Hobart Porter was assigned the job. Blond, dapper, fond of horses and tennis, Seton Porter graduated from Yale in 1905. A good engineer, he was assistant manager of a construction company on the West Coast before he joined his brother's firm. He recommended that the Trust be salvaged. The bankers were willing to take his expensive advice if he would...