Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite excited." She went to Roycemore School in Evanston, Ill., now attends Broadstairs in Kent, will go next year to a school in Paris. Frank, impulsive, vivacious, she is a pronounced brunette, eyes almost black, sparkling. With horse or tennis ball she is tolerably adept. Friendly, she is a firm friend of eloped brother Dana, no blood...
...regulations legally enacted for corporations, with their divided responsibility and limited liability, have given occasion to abominable abuses. The greatly weakened accountability makes little impression, as is evident, upon the conscience. The worst injustices and frauds take place beneath the obscurity of the common name of a corporative firm. Boards of directors proceed in their unconscionable methods even to the violation of their trust in regard to those whose savings they administer...
...Harper & Bros., publishers. Editor Wells had been associated with Harper & Bros, since 1899, three years after his graduation from Yale. In 1919 he succeeded the late famed Henry Mills Alden as editor of the magazine. He functioned as general literary adviser in Harpers' book publishing, led the firm's financial rehabilitation...
Died. Edmund Arthur Stanley Clarke, 69, secretary since 1923 of the American Iron & Steel Institute, onetime (1904-18) president of Lackawanna Steel Co., president of Consolidated Steel Corp. (export firm for independent steel makers) until it was dissolved; of pneumonia; in Rumson...
...good voice, went to many parties, made friends with the rich. He learned to make his customers trade as much as possible. On one $1,800 account he bought (and sold) $1,700,000 worth of stock during a year. The account ended the year at $2,000. The firm collected almost $10,000 in commissions. Customers' Man Loomis was, of course, not paid commissions. But he knew his salary would be "adjusted" to the business he brought the firm, that a yearly bonus would be determined on the same scale. One customers' man in the firm...