Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right hand man: Earle Bailie of Manhattan. Although really shouldering the job of Undersecretary, Earle Bailie was named merely a "special assistant." Hence he does not have to be confirmed by the Senate which might not look with favor on 1) a partner in the private banking firm of J. & W. Seligman; 2) the creator and head of Tri-Continental Corp., one of Wall Street's biggest investment trusts (original capital $100,000,000); 3) a man who likes nothing better than to spend two months of the year as lord of a funny old palace on the shore...
...meeting of the Gold Cup Contest Board, by means of family proxies Mr. Dodge won a vote approving superchargers for next year's Gold Cup race at Lake George, N. Y., over the bitter protest of other contestants. Last week A. P. B. A. was sympathetic but firm. The Gold Cup's deed of gift forbids major changes in contest rules after a challenge has been filed. But A. P. B. A. voted to approve superchargers for 1935. Since Mr. Dodge had hoped to use them against supercharged French and Italian boats in the first international regatta next...
...last of the Brothers Ringling, ill and aging John, who had owned more circuses than any other man on earth and whose fortune was once estimated to be $50,000,000, hobbled into a Federal Court in Brooklyn to testify on the loan that brought him low. The firm that held his note was in bankruptcy. At a prize fight in 1929, Mr. Ringling related, he met William M. Greve, president of New York Investors, Inc. (realty), who agreed to lend him $1,700,000. As collateral Mr. Ringling put up one-half of all his circus stocks. Shortly afterward...
Neither is undefeated (that indeed is a rare condition) but from comparative scores, from the calibre of the personnel, and for the general type of plays, there is little on which to base a firm hope one way or the other. Harvard has the advantage of having been under the guidance of the present coaching regime for three years, while Yale is learning from Reggie Root for the first time this year. Harvard seems to be stronger in individual potentialities but has not been able to develop them as yet. Yale has the edge on the offense, Harvard...
...Canada Club in London last fortnight, he anticipated the possibility that the Bank might be a disappointment until Canadian bankers were converted to its principle. Puffed he: "When you reflect that not a single depositor has lost a cent in this troublesome period and that the banks are firm and solvent, you will agree that the bankers of Canada may well take credit to themselves. . . . I am not at all sure that Canada may not, before many years are over, become the economic centre of the British Empire...