Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time personal attorney to Oil man Harry Sinclair, he became the head of Oklahoma oil interests valued at $70,000,000, helped organize Middle States Oil Corp., gambled in oil stocks. His bub ble broke when Middle States went into receivership. The courts investigated, dis covered that the firm's books had been shipped to Paris. Oklahoma's Haskell saw his Long Island estate auctioned off, went back west to recoup his fortunes...
...concordat. It consists of 35 articles, provides notably for the Catholic education of all children of Catholic parents in Germany. In districts where Catholics are in a majority the public schools shall be Catholic. Elsewhere Catholic children will attend separate Catholic schools. Thus Pope Pius retains in Germany a firm grip on what he likes to call "the dear youth...
...landscape painter that Edward Bruce was taken to London with the U. S. Delegation. Onetime associate of the great Manhattan law firm of Cravath. de Gersdorff. Swaine & Wood, he set up an independent practice in the Philippines, bought and operated the Manila Times, was retained by many a U. S. firm, did much business in China. His special knowledge of silver and the monetary problems of the Orient accounted for his official if not his artistic presence in London...
...Wilfred John Funk, son of the founder, is titular president but is famed only for light verse which has been published, not by his father's firm, but by Robert M. McRride...
...Hero Carr's father was an absconding scoundrel, but that did not prevent Millman Ainsley from paying for young Carr's education, taking him into the mill and making him junior partner in Carr, Carr & Ainsley. In return, Carr was supposed to be a credit to the firm and to marry Ainsley's nice but not very attractive daughter Catherine. Carr was a success in a business way, but before he was old enough to realize his other duty he fell desperately in love with Cordelia, daughter of his father's worst enemy. In spite...