Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Olvany's law firm-Olvany, Eisner & Donnelly-during the years that its senior member couched in the big leather chair at the Tammany Wigwam, was particularly successful in pleading cases before the Board of Standards & Appeals. The Board rules on building and zoning laws...
...love story of John Bray and Clarissa is no more than the thread which goes into the weaving of an American tapestry, a tapestry based on a firm mat of fact gleaned and connected by profound scholarly effort. The entire book would prove of valuable assistance to students of American history and expansion. In fact, it may well be taken as a jovial and sympathetic lecture on the social and intellectual history of the United States during the pre-War of 1812 period. At first the frequent use of obsolete words in conversation leads to a measure of resentment...
...Architect Alister Gladstone MacDonald, eldest son of Prime Minister MacDonald, against the London Daily Mail was settled out of court. The offending article in the Mail said that Mr. MacDonald "began by being a clever architect," referred to his "adventures in Hollywood," spoke of his alleged connection with a firm of publishers of cheap novels. The Mail acknowledged "misapprehension of the facts," guaranteed to indemnify Architect MacDonald, announced that it thought so much of him professionally it had engaged him as an architect...
Wire House Merger. Many a brokerage firm is expected to merge with the coming of 1932. Last week a harbinger of the movement came with the proposal to form Fenner, Beane & Ungerleider with 48 branches, twelve correspondents, second biggest wire house in the land.* Component firms are Fenner & Beane and Samuel Ungerleider & Co. The former was organized in 1917 in New Orleans and has retained the reputation of being an important cotton and grain house, conducting an active securities business at the same time. It will contribute 39 branches to the new firm. Samuel Ungerleider & Co. was formed in Cleveland...
CRIMSON candidacy does not prevent a man from being academically or athletically active and sound. It drains not on the time now spent on these pursuits but rather on the mass of time that is now being wasted. It teaches, in addition to a firm grasp of English and correct and clear grammar, the ability to see what goes on, to diagnose what happens, to think accurately, in order to get the facts well set in mind, and the absolutely unguided use of initiative in asking pertinent questions...