Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Smith is still alive (being in residence at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta) and carries on the business of his law firm in Atlanta. He did not accompany Mrs. Smith on the trip abroad, she going with her sister, but he was greatly interested in having her go. Ambassador Dawes and Senator Smith have been close friends for a long time. Mrs. Clark Howell, wife of Clark Howell, Editor of the Atlanta Constitution was also presented at this drawing room...
Open-Minded. So firm became the popular conviction that President Hoover would sign the bill because politically he could not afford to do otherwise that the White House took pains to emphasize that he was still "open-minded" and would "study the bill thoroughly" before acting upon it. That was to say, President Hoover would do no less on the Tariff Bill than he does on all legislation-refer it to the interested departments, in this case Treasury and Commerce, for technical opinions. If the President should choose to veto the bill, he would count on Secretaries Mellon and Lamont...
Patriarch Miron Cristea drew nigh, his snowy hair surmounted by a Byzantine crown of massy gold, his right hand grasping the apostolic staff. Carol will not be crowned until next autumn. In a firm voice he read his Kingly oath, kissed the cross extended by the crowned patriarch, and, with tears on his cheeks spoke thus: "In keeping with the words of the gospel, I do not wish death to those who sinned against me, but I rejoice over every one who returns to the fold from which he never should have strayed...
...National Bank of India and a number of adjoining shops at Delhi burned for a $550,000 loss in "mysterious circumstances" concealed by censorship; 3) at the summer palace of Viceroy Baron Irwin at Simla, India, His Excellency showed no sign of weakening in his policy, maintained a firm tone and began to study the first section of the Simon report on India; 4) natives at Poona, a few days after the parade, were preparing further to "revolt" by sending stock to the forests to feed, thus breaking the grazing tax; 5) at Manhattan, the Bishop of Bombay (Methodist Episcopal...
...white-haired but young-faced, Col. William Cooper Procter is the man who guides the destinies of Ivory Soap, his company's most famed product. His military title was won in the Ohio National Guard. Later at the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Plattsburg, he became the firm friend of General Leonard Wood, whom he supported for the Presidential nomination. Princeton graduated him in 1883, thanks him for Procter Hall, dining hall of the graduate college. Deeply religious and serious, Col. Procter is no reformer. He drives fearlessly and fast in open cars, goes quail-shooting twice...