Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's firm intention, and likely destiny, to go down in history as a President who affected U. S. life more profoundly than any man since Lincoln...
...mounting importance of Joe Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind...
Tens of thousands of "mustangs" and "fuzztails" - the wild descendants of horses that, have strayed from ranches - used to roam the vast sagebrush ranges of the U. S. Northwest. In wilder days, wild horse roundups were carried on periodically for the Portland, Ore. firm of Schlesser Bros., then the world's biggest packers of horsemeat...
...Knowlton, whose company has been chaperoning Farnsworth financially for four years. The other was Harry Cooke Gushing of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc. Last week Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. filed with SEC a registration statement covering 600,000 shares of $1 -par-value common stock. Mr. Cushing's firm will head a syndicate to raise over $3,000,000 from sale of the stock. Farnsworth Corp. will absorb The Capehart Inc. (famed record-changing phonograph) and the manufacturing facilities of General Household Utilities Co., which include the plant at Marion, Ind. where the old Grigsby-Grunow radio sets were...
...Both went to live in New Jersey, to play golf together on week ends. In 1931 both were upped to the newly created title of manager. Both gained prestige when Morgan gave up underwriting and concentrated on commercial banking in 1934. And so when deaths and resignations reduced the firm from 20 to twelve partners in six years, it was natural to reward tall, slender, shy Raymond Atkin and tall, slender, shy William Mitchell. Both...