Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...described as the Golden Age when, as Mr. Drepperd points out, there was a great demand for cheap pictures both original and reproductive. Lithographs at that time were the rotogravure supplements of our present-day Sunday newspapers. A whole chapter is devoted to a discussion of that much overrated firm of Currier & lves. From the thousands of different subjects the author weeds out a few that have some real merit and justly decries the present fancy for "Little Ellen"s and the "Darktown" series. The auction prices which be quotes for some of them are truly astonishing...
About the crimes of Düsseldorf's coachman there was nothing remarkable, except that for 16 months their author invariably escaped. His weapon was a common penknife. Walking up to a woman in some secluded spot he would address her courteously, watch his chance to seize her with a firm, stifling grip. In a nearby shelter of some sort?always carefully chosen? Coachman Kuerten would then deal with his victim, usually ending by hacking her lifeless body into an almost unrecognizable state with his penknife...
...significance," said Waddill Catchings when, last week, he resigned from the presidency of Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., $250,000,000 investment trust, and resigned also his membership in the firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Always noncommittal are resignations and always open to question are inferences from them. Yet withdrawals were no part of Mr. Catchings' work during the brave days of 1929, when the "new era" group of Market men maintained that soaring stock prices represented the legitimate reflection of prosperity and progress...
...pioneer Chicago advertising companies, Lord & Thomas, now Lord & Thomas and Logan. So successful was Lord & Thomas that Mr. Lord could refuse a $1,000,000 contract from a leather tannery when a guarantee of results was demanded. In 1904 he retired, sold his controlling interest in the firm to Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board...
Free Speech. In Los Angeles, Calif., the Record engaged the law firm headed by William Gibbs McAdoo, onetime U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, to defend it against contempt of court charges. Record editorials and cartoons had smitten the grand jury and prosecutor in an investigation of alleged corruption attendant upon the famed Julian Petroleum case. Defense : the grand jury and district attorney are not The Court. Snorted Publisher Henry Birdice Richmond Briggs: "Next time, like enough, they will pretend that the bailiff who pounds the gavel and the scrubwoman who cleans out the judicial cuspidor is (sic) sacrosanct...