Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absence (see p. 18). Of the comatose World Disarmament Conference of which he is president, he wrote: "I have steadfastly refused to contemplate the possibility of failure. . . . But we shall reach our goal only if the efforts of the world's governments are strengthened and guided by the firm purpose and steady pressure of their peoples...
...Sanitary District's scandalously extravagant era (1926-28); of heart disease; at Williams Bay, Wis. After his trial in February 1932, he had said: "I'll never live to go to jail." Last week the Chicago Hearstpapers revealed that Patrick-Nash, Cook County Democratic boss, whose contracting firm did a big business with the Sanitary District, was forced to settle a Federal tax claim on unreported income...
...insurance in force was taken over by Missouri's Insurance Commissioner O'Malley who charged that its $155,000,000 assets needed to be written down, perhaps as much as $27,000,000. On hand was Equity Corp. with a prompt offer: It formed a new firm, General American Life Insurance Co., with paid-in capital of $2,000,000, offered to take over Missouri State Life's business. ¶Studebaker Corp. owned all the Class B shares, 152,000 Class A shares and 23,500 preferred shares of Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. Six months...
...promise of quick cash to growers would outweigh any political pressure that Universal might bring on the R. F. C. Rogers Caldwell & Co., his new banking house, had nothing to do with the dark-fired deal. It was engineered by Mr. Caldwell personally, with a few associates. The firm, its original stake of $1,000 swelled considerably by sale of preferred stock to the public, is doing business in local stocks, local real estate, has even toyed with an Alabaman canal project...
...agencies have ever kicked out a good advertiser. Nonetheless. N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. "B. A. I. S. 1869"† national agency with headquarters in Philadelphia, last week pointedly dropped the account of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Wilfred Washington Fry, Ayer son-in-law president of the firm, is a Baptist Y. M. C. A. man, ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled to Repeal, Mr. Fry on learning that Canada Dry would soon...