Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Senators had known and liked this tall ruddy-faced, square-jawed old gentleman from War days when he had left his Chicago law firm to come to Washington as general counsel for the Shipping Board. Afterwards he had been chairman of the Shipping Board, Director General of Railroads, Secretary of the Interior. When in 1921 President Harding made him Red Cross chairman, Judge Payne (he once sat on the bench of the Cook County Superior Court, prefers that title) stipulated that he would serve without compensation, pay his expenses down to postage stamps out of his own pocket...
...years ago when such wise collectors as the sponsors of last week's memorial show were boosting the market price of Pascin's delicate and decadent women, a French firm placed him under a very liberal contract which gave him an income and a percentage of commissions that seemed to guarantee financial independence. Pascin realized that he would never live to enjoy it : he was dying of cirrhosis of the liver...
Prices. "We attempted, as a matter of collective policy, to hold the lines firm following the crash of 1929. . . . The policy has had a 13 month test. It has failed. . . . We must keep the markets open and the prices free...
Elected. Paul Curtis Martin, senior member of Martin & Corry, Springfield, Ohio, law firm, president and director of Springfield Railway Co.; to be a charter trustee (life tenure) of Princeton University...
...German character, as a means of propaganda against the Government in the time of a national crisis. Seen from this angle the censorship would appear like a weak surrender to the demagogues of the Hitlerite gang at a moment when the Reich needed, as never before, to present a firm front to its citizens and the world...