Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dickens' illustrator. A standing joke of Mr. Roosevelt's to ward off press queries: "I've been discussing Mr. Woodin's Cruikshanks." Prominent in his delicate, heartshaped countenance are Mr. Woodin's twinkling blue eyes and his small mouth, a cupid's but firm. He plumes himself on his punning. Last week he declared: "I'm going to be more concerned with Federal Reserve notes than with musical notes for a while." When a newsman named Acuff introduced himself, Mr. Woodin quipped: ''Acuff? Well I've got a collar...
Ferdinand Pecora, most brilliant lawyer of Italian extraction in the U. S., finished public schools at 12. At 18, after loping through his brother's law books, he was managing clerk of a law firm. Even on the most complex cases (which he, tireless, likes best) he never needs notes, never forgets a word of testimony once it is on the record. One of his most famed convictions was that of former New York State Superintendent of Banks Frank H. Warder for his part in the failure of Manhattan's City Trust...
...last week was Frazier Jelke & Co.'s survey of investment trust holdings, made each year to spot the drift of common stock popularity. After examining 80 portfolios, the firm ventured: "Analysis . . . shows an increasing preference for dividend paying stocks and further elimination of public utility holding company issues. . . . Holdings of better oils and rails have increased . . . and commitments . . . in heavy industries have decreased...
...propaganda . . . contributed to creating the atmosphere in which the present dispute broke out." It recommends "recognition of Japan's interests in Manchuria," because "the rights and interests of Japan in Manchuria are facts which cannot be ignored." Far from hostile to Japan in tone, the Report is nevertheless firm...
Harold Leonard Stuart, white-haired president of Halsey, Stuart & Co., Insuil bankers, insisted that most of his firm's profits from Insuil deals were on paper, that the final collapse had washed most of them away. The Senators were curious about Halsey. Stuart's former radio program, "The Old Counselor." Inaugurated with an address by Pennsylvania's obstreperous Congressman McFadden, it was a weekly investment talk prepared by Halsey, Stuart and read by Professor Bertram Griffith Nelson of the University of Chicago because he had a "mellow voice." Banker Stuart protested that the "Old Counselor" had never...