Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School and College (Winnipeg), also of Cambridge and the University of Manitoba; son-in-law of a rich retired brewer; onetime president of the Manitoba Red Cross and of the League of Nations Society. Since 1912 he had been a K. C.- King's Counsel. Through his investment firm were handled the trust and endowment funds of the University and the diocese. Lawyer Machray was a nephew, heir and executor of the late pioneering Archbishop Robert Machray, who, like his successor Archbishop Samuel Pritchard Matheson, left the administration of church funds in Lawyer Machray's hands. In Winnipeg...
...long illness, arose in Winnipeg's Provincial Police Court, leaning heavily on his cane, to be charged with theft. His peculations from University funds were now estimated at $901,175. In addition he was charged with stealing $60,000 from Heber Archibald, his former law partner. (The firm had gone bankrupt.) Begging a summary trial, Lawyer Machray pleaded guilty. Magistrate R. M. Noble, recalling huskily that for 25 years he had been a friend of the accused, passed sentence: seven years in the penitentiary...
Died. Mrs. Madeline Masters Stone, 55, sculptor, poet; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the late Judge Hardin Wallace Masters who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in the Springfield law firm of Lincoln & Herndon, she was a sister of Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology). She studied sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle and Gutzon Borglum, had lately done a bust of Lincoln as a youth for the Illinois...
...years. He lives in Montclair, N. J., drives his car to Manhattan daily, never carries cigars or cigarets. But the drawers of his desk are filled with both. His favorite cigar is a Corona Coronas and, like every other employe of the big cigaret companies, he smokes his firm's leading brand...
...companies are venerable. In 1852 Harry and Clement Studebaker began making covered wagons in South Bend. Seven years later Thomas White perfected a sewing machine. The Studebaker covered wagons were joined by electric cars about 1900, chiefly because of the foresight of Frederick Samuel Fish who had entered the firm in 1891. Son-in-law of one of the five Studebaker brothers who joined in the business, Mr. Fish, 80, is now chairman of the company. White's entrance into transportation came at about the same time. First roller skates were added to sewing machines, then bicycles. The company...