Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury on the collection of War taxes, later served as solicitor of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Always interested in the legalistic intricacies of taxation, he did special work for the Joint Congressional Committee on Internal Revenue. He is now a member of the famed Manhattan law firm of [Elihu] Root, Clark, Buckner, Howland & Ballantine, specializing in public service and business organization law. For recreation he writes scholarly articles on taxation for law reviews, plays hard at fashionable Piping Rock Club...
...courage in opening his magazine to controversial subjects of vital importance to advertising, and for presenting both sides fairly; for attacking the use of paid testimonials, and for founding "Advertising Arts," thereby presenting a medium for the expression of art in business. The second biggest prize winner was the firm of Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, Inc., which won two $1,000 prizes, one of which was for the Electrolux Refrigerator Sales, Inc. Illustrating effective use of headline-titled: "As silently as Nature Makes Ice." Steinway and Sons was awarded one of the eight other $1,000 awards...
...praise to Lawyer Michel for the millions he and/or his firm have justly collected for workingmen. Nevertheless his firm was thoroughly rebuked by the Supreme Court of Nebraska for its unethical practices and no member of a law firm can escape the consequences of such a rebuke on the grounds that he was not personally implicated...
...plan was offered by Samuel P. Rosoff, wealthy subway contractor. It was drawn up by the legal firm of Satterlee & Canfield. Herbert Livingston Satterlee is a brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan. The member of the firm who drew the plan was David M. Milton, son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Neither the young Jewish banker who brought the Bank of U. S. to glory and destruction, nor his methods were ever given much countenance by the higher financial community. If the proposed reorganization is carried out, the bank will pass apparently into another circle of financial...
Died. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, 76, inventor of the Parsons steam turbine, chairman of C. A. Parsons & Co., British engineering firm; aboard the Duchess of Richmond, on a West Indies cruise...