Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...count of one, Shannon fired and Cash felt a hot blow on his cheek—the sand kicked up by Shannon's bullet. At the count of two, Cash fired, saw a white spot against Shannon's black coat precisely where he had aimed, but Shannon stood firm. Cash was beginning to think he had been cheated when Shannon stepped forward, turned, staggered, fell dead. Around these facts tens of thousands of words of hot South Carolinian dispute have whirled ever since...
...these last few pages of the work that merit closest attention. In them is concentrated the opinions of a man, who, after long association with criminals, has not lost faith in humankind, who remains firm and steady in his beliefs while all is hysteria about him. Lawes is ardently opposed to capital punishment; he is an equally strong advocate of indeterminate sentences, with the length dependent on the individual rather than on the crime. All this has been said before, but usually in an atmosphere of sentimentality which disgusts surfeited auditors. Whatever else one may say of Lawes...
...interested to learn that the physician who was summoned at the time this accident occurred in 1848 was no less a person than Dr. Edward H. Williams, who later became general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad. From there he entered the locomotive building business as a member of the firm of M. Baird & Co., later Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co , and later Burnham, Williams & Co. operating the Baldwin Locomotive Works here in Philadelphia...
...Gerli-Japan deal brought into prominence the Gerli silk business, largest in its line. The Gerli family was in the silk trade in Italy for years.? In 1883 Emanuel Gerli, present president of the firm, migrated to the U. S. For many years E. Gerli & Co. did a business of about 500 bales a year against its present volume...
...fore in silk. After the Japanese earthquake in 1923, Japanese silk deliveries were stopped for two months. But Gerli & Co. arranged to ship silk from Kobe almost immediately and this was the real opening of a silk market outside of Yokohama. Emanuel Gerli is 73. Active spokesman for the firm in his nephew, Paolino Gerli, 41, a vice president. He came to the U. S. from Italy in 1905, later went to Japan where he dealt in silk for his own account from 1919 to 1921. In 1922 he joined E. Gerli & Co. Although the firm is" primarily a commission...