Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicted the bill would be through Congress in ten days. First the Senate must approve the conference changes in toto; then the House must sanction the flexibility change and the new lumber rate. That the President would sign the bill and try to flex out its imperfections was a firm congressional conviction...
...Last year I was approached by Malloy and asked if I could secure government contracts for his clients. I told him NO. Later he asked if I would represent his firm in legal matters. I assured him I'd undertake any legitimate legal work. I received $500 as a retainer. ... I told these men all I could do would be to keep in touch with the situation, let them know when bids were to be made. ... Of course anybody could have done this work. ... I never promised to get any of them contracts. ... I began to think something...
...bulletin board, are the 206 disjointed bones of an adult. One could actually see what one has been taught but scarcely believes, that the head is made up of a lower jaw and 21 other bones. (The 21 are fused together at zigzag joints to make the firm though perforated flask of the brain...
Simon & Schuster, spectacular young concern (Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster) who gave to the U. S. crossword puzzles, Trader Horn, Story of Philosophy, Joan Lowell. This firm is unique for its high average sale of its comparatively few books...
When this conference opened Mr. Daniels took three firm grips upon Bishop Cannon: 1) his mixing in politics unduly; 2) his administration of the Methodist, South's Board of Temperance and Social Service; 3) his "gambling" on the New York stock exchange...