Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground that Mayor-elect Shaw was not a U. S. citizen. Born in Canada 50 years ago, Frank Shaw was brought to the U. S. at the age of 5 by his father, a pioneer homesteader in Kansas and Colorado. He drummed the Southwest for a wholesale grocery firm in Joplin, Mo. Twenty-five years ago he settled in California. He was twice elected to the Los Angeles City Council by the businessman vote. When Supervisor Jack Bean mocked him as ''the grocery boy who made good,'' Mr. Shaw wrested the supervisorship from...
...Gentlemen. ... In the firm belief that mutual consultation is the first step towards right action, I inaugurate this conference. I pray that the result of your labors will set the world once more on the path to prosperity and ordered progress...
...office in his father's business. Jennie goes with him, waits a long time before getting up courage to tell him about her daughter. This has no final effect on their relationship but the pressure of his family against it does. Lester resigns from his father's firm rather than obey his father's orders to dismiss his mistress. He takes Jennie abroad. When Jennie finds out what he has done, she leaves him, goes back to Chicago, builds up a life around her daughter and scraps of news about her lover. He sees her twice more...
...they hesitated to recommend a stock or urge the purchase of a bond if it involved use of the mails or interstate commerce. Of course they advised old clients whom they could trust, for it was the racketeer, the sue-&-settle people, who would save every scrap of a firm's written matter waiting for a chance to trip it up. that Wall Street feared most. Many firms ceased or radically altered their "market letters...
...street lighting and he grew bored with staring at the wall space in trolley cars. Why not plaster the space with ballyhoo posters? Within a few years the boy was soliciting contracts from trolley owners all over the country. Today his company is the biggest card advertising firm in the world. It plasters thousands of vehicles with posters allegedly seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month. He heads a string of affiliated advertising firms, several utility concerns and a group of Florida development companies. He entertains elaborately, owns a country home next to John D. Rockefeller...