Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guest was asked to give his remedies for the nation's ills, beginning with Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution who illustrated his remarks with a smoking-compartment story about a young man in a lingerie shop. The publishers' consensus was that the President should be more firm with Congress. Aggrievedly President Hoover replied that when he had attempted to reprimand Congress he was not only jumped on by Congress but by the publishers. At this point someone brought up the real business of the evening, suggested that a hand-raising vote be taken to see how many...
...Honor evaded any direct answer to the first question, jocularly wisecracking that the best offer the city ever had for a bus line came from a Long Island hay & feed firm (Laughter...
Taxis. Why did the Mayor accept $26,535 worth of bonds from Broker Joseph A. Sisto, whose firm was interested in Parmelee Transportation (Checker Cab) securities, in 1929? Was it chance that, after Broker Sisto spoke to His Honor about the necessity for curbing low-rate "taxicab racketeers," the Mayor legislated into being the Board of Taxicab Control...
...inferred to belong partly to him, Mayor Walker said he "hoped [the Inquisitor] proves it is mine. I'd try and collect it" (Laughter). The lock box, he explained, had been shared when Mayor Walker was in the State Senate and practiced law in a firm for which Sherwood was accountant. It had been used by the Mayor as a repository for papers relating to one law case. To him Fugitive Sherwood was simply an unpaid secretary who took money (between $800 and $1,000 a month) to Mayor Walker's widowed sister, paid the expenses of plump...
Daniel Manning McKeon, a member of the New York Stock Exchange but a partner in no firm, was not summoned to Washington during the recent bear-hunt. Nor did his name appear upon the Senate's list of big shorts. Although his brother, Robert Manning McKeon, is known in Wall Street as an important independent floor trader, Daniel McKeon had little fame in the financial district until last week...