Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York. Against him in the House last year had been filed impeachment charges. The most specific complaints were that, after his appointment, he had continued a business association, involving real estate, with his onetime law partner, which netted him $55,468; that he gave members of his old law firm bankruptcy receiverships which brought in $105,468 in fees. He was also accused of ''oppression, intimidation, gross abuse of discretionary powers...
...even before this famed transaction, Broker Whitney was very well known in Wall Street. His firm, Richard Whitney & Co., is considered Morgan's broker; he is the younger (age: 41) brother of Morgan-Partner George Whitney. His knowledge of bonds is as thorough and keen as any in the Street. Groton-and-Harvard (1911)-schooled, he goes in for such cultured recreations as breeding Ayrshire cattle and fine hunters at his Somerset County, N. J., farm, although he occasionally foregoes these pleasures for yachting (he is treasurer of the New York Yacht Club). Last January, wearied by Exchange travails...
Funk & Wagnalls also reminded people that the firm was long known as a "Prohibition house," that the late Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk founded "Prohibition Park" as an amusement centre on Staten Island. His son Wilfred John Funk, now inactive president of the company, is also a personal...
...double undertaking is involved," said Mr. MacDonald, "to the Jewish people on the one hand and to the non-Jewish people of Palestine on the other. . . . It is the firm resolve of His Majesty's Government . . . to do equal justice to all sections of the population of Palestine. . . . This is an international obligation from which there can be no receding...
...before the final debate on third reading began, Liberal Lloyd George gave Laborite MacDonald renewed assurance that his Party would not let the Government down so long as the Naval Conference lasted. Several times the Welshman has seemed to be weakening on this assurance, but last week he stood firm and Laborites smacked the Bill through...