Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prohibition Bureau by the new Division of Investigation. To direct the new division he selected 39-year-old John Edgar Hoover, chief of the present Bureau of Investigation. Capable, efficient, he succeeded the late great William John Burns as director of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924. A firm believer in fingerprints, he expanded the U. S. identification and crime statistics systems, which now contain nearly 4,000,000 records of criminals and Federal civil service employes. His assistants must be college graduates and lawyers, must go through a special training course in crime detection. A shrewd and able criminologist...
...announces the formation of the firm of IVY LEE and T. J. ROSS 15 Broad Street, New York...
While Mr. Lee looked on benignly, Chief-of-Staff Ross announced that henceforth he was a senior partner. Moreover, the rest of them were appointed junior partners : Burnham Carter, who joined the firm ten years ago and lately returned from a leave of absence in which he was secretary to Ambassador Guggenheim in Havana; Harcourt Parrish, oldtime AP and Louisville Courier-Journal man whom Ivy Lee rented out to Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor for the latter's effort to get the Democratic nomination last year; Joseph Ripley, onetime editor of the tradepaper American Press in which he wrote...
...clams. Next day was Emperor Haile Selassie's birthday. The President cabled him: ". . . My most hearty congratulations and best wishes. . . . It has been indeed a gratification and a sincere pleasure to receive His Highness the Ras Desta Demtu. . . . This visit will do much in cementing the firm bonds of friendship between Ethiopia and the United States...
...motor fortune, William V. Griffin, president of Brady Security & Realty Corp., President William H. English Jr. of the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange and several of Bill Young's friends who were reported to have put up $50,000 each. Jimmy Ottley became president of the old firm, will continue as Young & Ottley...