Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemingly gets a tremendous zest out of life. Breaking her promise five minutes after it was made not to mention the theatre, she expounded her theory of what the American theatre has to offer in the way of development. Miss Kennedy is a firm believer in the use of dress, settings, and a minimum of makeup to accentuate development of plot or character when the lines are not nearly sufficient. She used illustrations profusely from "Michael and Mary" to prove her points. Miss Kennedy emphasized the fact that all the latest hits of New York were decidedly the other extreme...
...Another failure which was direct aftermath of the September decline was that of C. Clothier Jones & Co., New York and Philadelphia brokerage house whose socialite partners include Richard Norris Williams II, onetime U. S. tennis champion. Each partner has been charged with fraud, four are out on bail. The firm was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, was suspended while Partner Jones was on his way to New York, delayed by New Jersey grass-fires...
...Clothier Jones failure was a startling Philadelphia sequence. Last week George K. Reilly of Reilly, Brock & Co. committed suicide. Soon afterward, Sidney F. Tyler Brock, the other partner, shot himself. The next day Robert L. Zoll, 53, junior partner of Charles H. Bean & Co., killed himself in the firm's basement. A few days later another suicide was Edwin I. Simpson, 59, president of E. I. Simpson...
Sisto. No disclosure has been made regarding the affairs of Sisto Financial Corp., investment trust sponsored by the recently insolvent J. A. Sisto & Co. (TIME, Oct. 13). But creditors of the firm itself last week hoped for a payment of 50% in the immediate future, another 50% later. It was likewise understood that popular Joseph A. Sisto expected eventually to resume his business. Prince & Whitely, however, will be barred from joining the Exchange again, unless an entirely new set of partners decide there is still good-will left in the ancient and long honorable name of Prince & Whitely...
August Heckscher, rich real estate operator and charitarian,was made chairman of Rainbow Luminous Products, Inc., firm closely identified with Runaway Charles Victor Bob (TIME, Oct. 27). Among new Rainbow directors chosen last week were Gustave Maurice Heckscher, the chairman's son; Thomas F. Cole, sometimes associated with Promoter Bob in deals, once a mineral expert with U. S. Steel; Augustus Peabody Loring Jr., Boston banker. The company announced that Mr. Bob is no longer a stockholder or director in Rainbow...