Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unnamed lawyer was the man who first tempted him. Mr. Throop confessed. The lawyer offered a $5,000 bribe in behalf of a tax-burdened firm. "I refused even to touch it," said Mr. Throop. "After that he began to cultivate me. He was very nice and subsequently he took me out several times in a motorboat. Later I took $1,500 from...
...Brothers. Goldman Sachs had a bright partner named Waddill Catchings, Tennessee-born Harvard graduate who had been by successive and increasing turns lawyer, steelman and J. P. Morgan assistant in purchasing supplies for the Allies during the War. In December 1928 Mr. Catchings made history by launching for his firm, Goldman Sachs Trading Corp...
Commander Wiley, who had himself declared an "interested party'' (technical defendant ) in order to attend private hearings and examine witnesses, was firm in defense of Captain McCord's navigation. The weather forecast, he recalled, was for light wind and fog. When lightning was sighted below Philadelphia Captain McCord changed the course from south to northwest. Said Commander Wiley: "Although my own inclination was to go west, he had as much or more information than I and his judgment was just as good as mine. . . ." Later, however, when the ship was heading east at sea, Captain McCord told...
...Gordon '36, delivered the two long arguments for Harvard and C. M. Kerr and O. W. Dennis for Yale. The rebuttals, delivered by T. H. Quinn '36, for Harvard and L. B. Harris for Yale were the high spots of the evening, both speakers giving firm and pertinent talks. The debate was closed by the minute and a half rebuttal for Harvard by H. G. Sullivan. A short forum on the topic of the debate was held while the judges made their decisions...
...passed into receivership. Gross sales last year were reported "about $1,500,000" as compared to $3,000,000 in "a good year." Cause for the receivership was the petition of seven publishers to whom Brentano's owed sums up to $19,000 each. For some time the firm has been operating on a standstill agreement providing the freezing of some $375,000 owed to publishers. Last week two or three publishers grew restless. Receivership followed. Other publishers pointed out that if Brentano's were forced to liquidate half a million dollars worth of books would be thrown...