Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...here published, Professor Garrod does not shrink. To tell a world of poets who detest the touch of morality when they grope in the dark for the hand of beauty that the weakness of their work is their own attitude requires, if not courage, conviction and firm bases...
...ever previously found necessary and emerged a sufficiently learned lawyer. Thence to his native Cleveland where he lived as if no other city existed. He had by this time married Louise Harkness (Standard Oil heiress) who has borne him three daughters. A clerk in the famed law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, he argued small jury cases in court as intensely as if they had been national issues. With great personal enthusiasm he invested in various local enterprises and took with grave responsibility a big local bank directorship. He bought a modest estate in green, pretty, outlying Chagrin Valley...
...known how much stock the Nichols family controls, what its relation with other big stockholders has been, the mystery of what went on behind the cloud might be solved. Another executive change occurred last week when Clinton Stephen Lutkins, who left Allied to join the New York Stock Exchange firm of R. W. Pressprich & Co., was recalled to become an Allied director and executive vice president...
...bought control of Cuban-American Manganese Corp., allowing the minority interest to remain in the shrewd hands of David Marvin Goodrich, chairman of B. F. Goodrich Co. A big mill will be built at once, shipments to the U. S. started. Surprising, however, was revelation of the U. S. firm's identity. It was Freeport Texas Co., second biggest producer of sulphur...
...group is Freeport's chairman, Odie R. Seagraves, self-made Texan, organizer of United Gas Corp.'s super gas system. Ably carrying out his policies is Eugene Levering Norton. 50, Freeport president. Mr. Norton was born in Baltimore, went to Cornell, then started his own investment firm. His best boast: he has never had a boss except for a board of directors. He helped Frank Andrew Munsey form Baltimore's Munsey Trust Co. which later consolidated with Baltimore Trust Co. of which Mr. Norton became president. He is quiet, likes salmon fishing in Maine and plays bad golf...