Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...violin-playing and painting daughter of onetime Dean John Ferguson Weir of the School of Fine Arts, Yale University. He is president of the trustees of St. George's School, Newport, R. I. At his summer home in Princeton, Mass, he plays tennis, tends a garden, fells trees. Firm-jawed, genial, sparse of hair, he is an enlightened divine whose culture should make him particularly welcome at the four weeks' Lambeth Conference of Anglican leaders which opens in London in July...
Amused and stimulated were Columbia's pedagogs last week when their visitor, in his three lectures, took gentle but firm issue with the Columbian idea of mass education and the pet theory of their colleague, Professor Thomas Henry Briggs, head of the department of Secondary Education. Professor Briggs vehemently believes that all schools should be state-supplied, "democratic," that today's private schools are unsatisfactory. Sir Michael prefaced his remarks by soothing any Columbian feathers that might become ruffled later. Said he: ''Teachers College is by far the greatest center for the study of educational method...
...PRESIDENT OF STOCK EXCHANGE UNDER INDICTMENT. To casual readers it of course suggested malpractice, dishonesty, perhaps collapse of the Exchange. To people familiar with the case, however, it seemed more an unfortunate technicality. Two dishonest employes of the Bank of Italy had been operating "dummy"' accounts through the firm of Leib, Keyston & Co., whose senior partner. George N. Keyston, California socialite, is president of the Exchange. Other San Francisco brokers, claiming the firm could not have known these accounts were false, refused to receive customers who wanted to switch from Leib. Keyston, refused to accept the permanent resignation...
...Founder's son. Mrs. Corrigan, a onetime waitress, was never received by Cleveland society when "Young Jim" took her there to live (TIME, Feb. 13, 1928). She and her husband thereupon moved to London, climbed socially, spent fabulous sums in entertainment. During this time the steel firm was Corrigan-McKinney, a partnership in which McKinney exercised trusteeship over Founder Corrigan's estate. In 1925 he used this power to transform the partnership into a corporation, the McKinney Steel Co. Corrigan returned from London, bought control, gave the company its present title. When he died last year, his wife...
...Hill to a high place among U. S. preparatory-schools. His mother, "Mrs. John," remained at the school, a matriarchal and religious influence, an embodiment of Hill tradition, while the young King carried on after his father's death. He had been to Yale and Oxford. He had firm ideas about efficiency of body and mind. He administered the school as a business concern, left teaching to the teachers, led prayers like a chairman-of-the-board. An able tennis player, he coached the tennis team, then mastered golf mechanically and coached that too. Those were his two closest...