Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor Thompson issued a breath-taking broadside against his old foe, the Chicago Tribune. Prepared as a 16-page folder in rotogravure by the advertising firm of Conine & Millner, one million copies were distributed to voters. Its caption: "The Tribune Shadow - Chicago's Greatest Curse." The gist of the Thompson argument within was that the Tribune, by discrediting Chicago's Mayor, had discredited Chicago and blighted its prosperity. The Mayor complained of the paper's "photographic lies" of him, contrasted Tribune pictures of himself with retouched studio portraits. "The Tribune's Lies Have Made the World...
...regiments which fought under him in the Civil War. Because of his great philanthropy, he was widely regarded as an enormously rich, successful businessman. It was news to most of last week's audience that he failed twice in business before he was taken into the family brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co., that his generosity ran him close to bankruptcy again in his eightieth year (1914) when his brother, the late Francis Lee Higginson, anonymously took over the burden of the orchestra...
Boston's oldest families are all connected?Lowells, Cabots, Jacksons, Lees and Higginsons. Founder of the U. S. line of Higginsons was Rev. Francis Higginson, Salem's first religious teacher. The brokerage firm of Lee & Higginson was founded seven generations later (1848) by George Higginson and John Clarke Lee, his wife's cousin. George Higginson's best known sons were Henry Lee and Francis Lee. Francis Lee's son is the only Higginson now in the big investment banking house. George Cabot Lee, grandson of John Clarke Lee, is also a partner...
...first on a construction job in Puget Sound, then on a Florida bus line, then with a power company in Virginia. From those occupations he went to Boston to be a messenger boy in the Stone & Webster Building for a while, then entered the legal department of the firm. He was a vice president when he resigned last week to go to Kidder, Peabody. He is also a director of Freeport Texas Co., New England Trust Co., Railway & Light Securities Co. Golfer, fisherman, gunner and rider-to-hounds, he was in Florida last week recovering from brain concussion suffered when...
...impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would like to receive about $200,000. Almost alone of New York's important galleries, the firm of Duveen Bros, refused to take part in the show. Reason: Sir Joseph was out of town; his three brothers could do nothing without...