Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legitimacy of this commemoration has been contested, and it has been said that republican governments have been no less firm than were their predecessors in defense of public order. It is the public order. It is the public sovereignty, now firmly established by the franchise that the republican governments defend in maintaining public order. These men of 1830 did not have this guarantee. Furthermore their revolution was neither directed nor subsidized from abroad...
...Author. The late great Italo Svevo's real name was Ettore Schmitz. Like his hero, Schmitz was a Trieste businessman-millionaire head of a shipping firm-who wrote in his spare time. In 1912 he met Author James Joyce, who is said to have encouraged him to write this book, which he did when the War suspended his business. When Confessions of Zeno appeared (1923) it had an immediate succes d'estime throughout Europe. In 1928 Schmitz, aged 67, was killed in a motor accident in Italy. Other books: Una Vita, Senilita...
...Buyers. So long and so spectacularly has Sir Joseph Duveen, baronet, been in the public prints* that many people forget the existence of his brothers four- Ernest, Edward, Benjamin, Charles. Charles Duveen left the firm of Duveen Bros, years ago to start a New York furniture shop of his own under the name of Charles of London. Sir Joseph's son-in-law, Armand Lowengard manages the Paris branch. But though Ernest, Edward and Benjamin are partners in the company, actively engaged in its traffickings, the public is not far wrong in believing that Sir Joseph is Duveen Brothers...
...been strongly influenced by pro-Bethlehem interests. Eaton attorneys emphasized the fact that Henry G. Dalton, who had sat in with Mr. Campbell in meetings with Mr. Grace, was a director of Bethlehem as well as of Youngstown. It was also brought out that Pickands, Mather & Co., ore firm of which Mr. Dalton is a partner and which was active in the purchase of Youngstown stock proxies voted in favor of the Bethlehem merger, had received from Bethlehem a loan of $800.000 to replenish current cash drained by proxy purchases. Mr. Dalton testified that this loan had been repaid within...
Apparently the hoaxing Southern hostess, still alive, had threatened a libel suit unless the story about her was eliminated, together with some uncomplimentary hearsay evidence on her social resourcefulness with which Mr. Wister embroidered his tale. Counsel for Macmillan advised the firm it would be less expensive to recall and revise than to face a libel action...