Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow quiet, firm diplomatic protests apparently had some effect. When the prisoners seemed inclined to keep on with confessions tending to incriminate high French officials by name, President Vyshinsky of the Court loudly rang his bell, announced that when accusations involving prominent foreigners were to the fore the Court would sit in secret with no broadcasting...
...Morgan has, indeed, long been a firm friend of Britain, and never was the staunchness of his friendship better shown than when British reputation was put to a test in the early months of the World War and was being besmirched by those in his own country whose origin and interests made them naturally zealous to damage it. Credit meant much in those days, but the help to Britain of the House of Morgan was unwavering and invaluable...
Greenwich, Conn, home, or in his Pasadena colonial house, or aboard his yachts Zatna and Sialia. Chicagoans remember when he became a partner in D. A. Tyng & Co., Chicago over-the-counter house. They also remember how that firm ended in a flurry of indictments. Promoter Andrews came out of that crash unscathed. He went to Manhattan, prospered in stocks and buildings; went to Los Angeles, prospered in stocks, hotels, penny slot-machines. So greatly did he prosper that he could play the market in company with that once great bull William Crapo Durant. He became and still...
...group was formed last spring under the auspices of the School, and now numbers among its members executives from practically every important American firm. They aim to maintain close contact with the research developments of the School and to discuss, at times such as the present gathering, personally with the profesosrs the work they are doing, what they did last year, and what they plan to do in the future...
...lithographed prints of the disaster by the thousand; his years of hard sledding were over. In 1852 Currier was joined by James Merritt Ives, "a young man who yearned to be an artist but who was a bookkeeper because he had no particular desire to starve." Till 1907 the firm of Currier & Ives kept its existence, though Currier retired in 1880. Ives died...