Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only once did he re-enter the political arena. At the Democratic State Convention of 1918 he rose to denounce William Randolph Hearst, who wanted to be Governor. Hearstlings raised a furore, ordered the sergeant-at-arms to throw Mr. Seabury out. But majestic Samuel Seabury eluded a firm grip on the seat of his pants, made his speech, buried Hearst for Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...FREQUENTLY STOP OUR COMPANIES IN ADDITION IN MOST CASES OF MAKING PERIODIC REPORTS TO THE STATE AUTHORITIES MAINTAIN A MOST CAPABLE AND A MOST EXTENSIVE AUDITING DEPARTMENT AND OUR STATEMENTS ARE ALSO AUDITED AT IRREGULAR INTERVALS BY PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS STOP . . . IN MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS OF THESE AUDITS NO FIRM OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS HAS EVER DISAGREED WITH THE WORK OF OUR OWN AUDITORS EXCEPT ON TRIVIAL AND MINOR MATTERS AND I WOULD SAY IN AT LEAST NINETEEN CASES OUT OF EVERY TWENTY WE HAVE PROVED TO THEM THAT WE WERE RIGHT AND THEY HAVE AGREED TO THIS STOP...
Then Sir Robert Kindersley went to Paris and more stories began. Sir Robert is a director of the Bank of England and of the French banking firm of Lazard Bros. & Co., Ltd., in London. Was he going to Paris to beg aid from the French for the proudest bank in the world? Scot MacDonald, about to leave Berlin for London, attempted to deny the rumor...
...have 70% of the visible corn supply in his possession (5,000,000 bushels out of a total supply of 6,813,000). By the morning of July 30 deliveries were pouring in to him, and 157 carloads of corn were standing on the tracks consigned to the firm buying for him. The shorts, whose July contracts fell due at midnight of the next day, had already bid up corn to 68? the day before, now went on to raise it to 72½?-a gain of 14? in less than two days. At that point Trader Howell, well knowing...
...Alfred William Erickson. Up & down Europe it met fierce competition from Sir Michael Nairn of Scotland whose family had been making linoleum since 1847. In 1924, whipped, Congoleum was glad to become Congoleum-Nairn, Inc. Its chairman is now Alfred William Erickson, although his chief interest is the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson. Inc. Vice Chairman is Baronet Nairn, jovial, bushy-mustached, fond of sports. With hat turned far down in front he drives to sporting events in a strange motor wagonette, scrambles onto its roof for a good view. He likes to go through factories notebook in hand. Congoleum...