Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee, Cream City Brewing Co. announced it would fly its first two cases of bottled beer to the White House. Explained the manager: "That's our way of showing appreciation." From George J. Meyer, president of a Milwaukee bottling equipment firm, went a $5,000 check to the Democratic National Committee "for keeping its promise...
Died. James Mitchell Hoyt, 47, senior partner of the New York Stock Exchange firm of Prince & Whitely, which failed in October 1930 owing some $15,000,000 to more than 5,000 customers; of abdominal complications; in Manhattan...
Died. Louis Ullstein. 70. head of Berlin's great Ullstein publishing house; in Berlin. Second and favorite of the founder's five sons, he was credited with building up the firm to its present reputed position of world's largest. Its Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung (weekly) has a circulation of some 1,750,000. The circulations of its Vossische Zeitung (daily), Berliner Morgenpost and Berliner Zeitung am Mittag total some 1,000,000. It also publishes many a fortnightly and monthly magazine. thousands of cheap, popular books. A fleet of airplanes distributes its daily and weekly publications...
...recent receivership was that of the famed mortgage bond vendors, S. W. Straus & Co. Inc. Last week two receivers (one of them William A. Calder, former U. S. Senator), appointed to try to do something for the holders of $380,000,000 of securities sold by the firm, threw up their jobs saying that there was nothing they could do for the public. Straus & Co. had not guaranteed the bonds and. the receivers added, ''We find after a preliminary investigation that S. W. Straus & Co. is simply a shell...
William DeWitt Mitchell, outgoing U. S. Attorney General, onetime St. Paul law partner of Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler, became senior member of the law firm of Mitchell, Taylor, Capron & Marsh in Manhattan...