Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Candidate Lehman has the tacit support of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Wall Street has a kindly feeling toward him because his family controls the old banking firm of Lehman Bros. Republicans admit that he would be the hardest Democrat to beat...
...That is a delicate matter. Krenn was not friendly with the Rockefeller or the McCormick families. It was for the good of the firm. I will attend to the business. I am a fighter. I like to be in the thick of things. I like to take a chance. I like to make decisions. Maybe I am like Mussolini...
Doom? Eugenists view with alarm the world's future population. From England wrote Major Leonard Darwin, 82, eugenist son of Evolutionist Charles Darwin: "My firm conviction is that if widespread eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization...
Members of the New York Stock Exchange who chanced to walk past the corner of Madison Avenue and 43rd Street in the last month have been taken aback by what they saw. In the long narrow office where once was a dressy branch of defunct Pynchon & Co., the firm of Pirnie, Simons & Co., Inc., members of no exchange and backed by celebrated Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews, has what its salesmen call "our store...
...receivership proceedings as "collusive, sham, fictitious, in bad faith and of ulterior motive." No sooner had fixer Blumenthal taken to the warpath last week than he was sued JOT: $4,485, allegedly due as profits on a $5,000 investment in his show Girl Crazy. Suer was a Philadelphia firm headed by Mr. Blumenthal's friend Albert Monroe Greenfield, shrewrd banker-promoter. Promoter Greenfield, too, once fixed for William Fox. He it was who negotiated the sale of Fox holdings in First National Pictures to Warner Brothers...