Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrance to the concert hall that night an angry crowd awaited him. "A morte! (Kill him!)" they shouted. "Is it true you refused to play the Fascist hymn?" He stood firm, his eyes flashing, his moustache bristling. "Yes, it is true!'1 Then their blows rained upon him . . . his mouth gushed blood...
...great Jacob Henry Schiff who gave to the house of Kuhn, Loeb fame equal to Morgan's. Mortimer was graduated from Amherst in 1896, studied railroads in the U. S., banking in Europe. On the first day of the 20th Century he was made a partner in the firm. Many times a millionaire, he was active in philanthropy, a collector of art treasures. His death left only nine partners in his firm, an unusually small roster. They are: Felix Moritz Warburg, Otto Hermann Kahn, Jerome J. Hanauer, George W. Bovenizer, Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, Sir William Wiseman, John M. Schiff...
...secure the expected benefits of survey courses, critics say, one should begin with a firm foundation. After two or three years of history and of economics, the student is equipped sufficiently for real survey courses. He can then understand the place and purpose in society of his own chosen field. Oregon Emerald...
Amid her sobbing troupe Texas Guinan stood firm. "In the words of Calvin Coolidge, I do not choose to run!" she wisecracked...
...week when Fiduciary Trust Co. opened for business on the 30th floor of No. i Wall St. But other bankers pre- pared to watch Fiduciary's course with deep interest. Distinctly it is a new departure in banking. The idea for Fiduciary Trust was conceived by the law firm of Root, Clark & Buckner and the investment counsel firm of Scudder, Stevens & Clark which, formed in 1919 as the first purely professional investment adviser, now spends $400,000 a year in research, handles some $325,000,000 in funds. Representatives of both firms are on the bank's board...