Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their routine doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors to her, closed it again, listened for two hours while she used all her legal and oratorical...
...partners in the new firm of Brown Bros., Harriman & Co., eleven...
...deposit Oct. 17. Half of the deposits are thought to be in thrift accounts.? Many large accounts were also tied up. The Salvation Army had on deposit $50,000 of the proceeds of the Army-Navy charity football game (see p. 34). J. C. Brownstone & Co., a clothing firm whose senior partner is a Bank of United States director, had the bulk of its liquid assets in the bank, asked for a receiver. Burns Bros. Coal dropped sharply on the Exchange on rumors that it too was involved, but the company announced it had less than...
...first business day of 1931, the law firms of Miller, Otis & Farr and Hornblower, Miller & Garrison will be open for business as the law firm of Hornblower, Miller, Miller & Boston. Senior partner of the new firm will be Nathan L. Miller, of Miller, Otis & Farr. Onetime (1921-23) Governor of New York, Mr. Miller has served in many public offices, now is general counsel for U. S. Steel Corp., of which he is a director and member of the finance committee. His firm's clients include Continental Can, Crucible Steel, estate of Nicholas Brady. The other Mr. Miller...
...Constellation was published in Manhattan on July 4, 1867 by one George Roberts. Other curios: one of the earliest Socialist journals (1849), printed on dark red paper; an Eskimo newspaper; a copy of the Cologne Volks-zeitung (1889) which presented a brief story of the 100th anniversary of the firm of Solomon Oppenheimer, printed in letters of gold...