Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pride of the Irish Free State is the $35,000,000 River Shannon canal and hydroelectric power plant which the Berlin firm of Siemens-Schuckert is rapidly completing for the Government. Part of the plant was in operation last week when pedantic German engineers hurried to the office of General Manager T. A. McLaughlin to complain about the Irish wording of some warning signs which workmen were hanging on the power lines...
...Yale News' assertion that the abolition of the classics requirement at New Haven will "rock the firm foundation of classical culture in secondary schools" is fine hyperbole. That foundation has long since lost any, Gibraltar-like quality. It is unlikely, on the other hand, that the classics are doomed to complete neglect at any early date...
During its long history First National has been firm through all panics and regarded as supreme by every other bank, public and private. It has always supported the operations of the Treasury Department and still makes a point of immediately subscribing $25,000,000 for every Government offering, a fact which pleases Mr. Baker's younger friend, Andrew William Mellon. In recent years Mr. Baker had served as chairman of the bank. The active president has been Jackson Eli Reynolds, 58, whom Mr. Baker took from the position of general attorney for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Mr. Reynolds...
John F. Harman, 87, resigned as chairman of Handy 6 Harman, famed silver brokers. Mr. Harman was in the firm 64 years, worked with three generations of Handys...
Jefferson Seligman is 72. He often brings flowers to the office and gives them to the other men who form the partnership of J. & W. Seligman & Co., the firm which his father and seven uncles founded 68 years ago. More serious minded than his fun-fond cousin is Henry Seligman, 74, whose son, Walter, 36, represents the third generation of the partnership. The principal partner, the Sage of Seligman, is Frederick Strauss, 70, a deeply cultured, aristocratic financier. He loves poetry and quotes it easily. Under the Strauss prestige, Seligman & Co. has gone about its business quietly, politely...