Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jefferson Day dinner in Washington onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, firm teetotaler, proposed a Constitutional amendment modifying or repealing the 18th Amendment, ratification to be by a majority of the electors of three-fourths of the States. Two days later Bishop James Cannon Jr. approved the Byrd plan before a meeting of the Anti-Saloon League at Richmond. Day after that Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde returned from the Missouri State Republican convention and endorsed that body's appeal that Congress call a national Constitutional convention on Prohibition...
...John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, who had flown expressly to the banquet from Geneva (300 mi.), stressed Anglo-U. S. amity. "It is our firm resolve to cultivate this happy relationship," cried Sir John, "and to use it for the benefit of the whole world...
...Ireland is a distinct nation from Britain," President de Valera cabled to the South African Government which had asked him to modify his stand, and to other Dominions which advised him against tampering with the oath, Mr. de Valera was equally firm. Irish wits had to point out that the Free State Constitution has already been amended 17 times, roguishly referred to "our Eighteenth Amendment...
Last week Publisher Lorimer and Reporter Marcosson may have regretted their coup. For in one of the most smashing statements ever made by a firm of auditors, Ivar Kreuger was last week pronounced a crook, a swindler, a falsifier of books...
When in 1928 the famed Boston-born firm of Lee, Higginson prepared to issue millions of Kreuger securities to U. S. investors, it naturally demanded an audit of the Kreuger business. It was persuaded by Ivar Kreuger?one of the most charmingly persuasive men who ever lived ?that it was not necessary for a U. S. firm to audit his vast affairs. He had not only one but three great Swedish firms of auditors which over a period of years and throughout the civilized world had learned how to keep track of the globe-girdling assets and liabilities...