Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to call "the richest treasury of Renaissance masterpieces in private ownership," was well on its way to the U. S. last week. Its value: $6,000,000. Its sale price: undisclosed. Purchaser of the collection and agent for its ultimate distribution to U. S. tycoons was the one firm of art dealers capable of handling a transaction of that magnitude: Duveen Brothers of London, Paris & New York...
...Redfield, S. Dak., then in the copper country around Helena, Mont., where he established a reputation handling suits against mining companies. In 1906 he was defeated for the House of Representatives, but his law fame grew. With Montana's onetime Attorney General, he formed the locally potent firm of Walsh. Nolan & Scallon...
...studied the violin, never became particularly expert, never considered making music his profession. His first job was with the Wisconsin Central R. R. for which he became passenger traffic manager while still in his 20's. At that point he turned his back on railroading, entered the millinery firm of Stumer, Rosenthal & Eckstein. Following interests have been real estate, particularly in Chicago's loop, where he is part owner of several office-buildings; the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., of which he is a director; publishing (he founded The Red Book in 1903 and The Blue Book shortly...
Cause: Amos W. Shafer. Effect: closing by State Banking Department of Cincinnati's Cosmopolitan Bank & Trust Co. Mr. Shafer broke the bank singlehanded. As district manager of Henry L. Doherty & Co., Cities Service specialists, he used the firm's account to make away with $632,000, which was within $14,000 of the bank's capitalization...
...Author. James Truslow Adams. 52, born in Brooklyn, now living in Manhattan, has written so ably of New England that he is often thought to be a New Englander. Educated abroad, at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, at Yale, he became partner in a Manhattan Stock Exchange firm, retired in 1912 to study history. During the War he served as captain, was detailed to special duty at the Versailles Peace Conference. Other books: The Founding of New England (Pulitzer Prize, 1921), Revolutionary New England, New England in the Republic...