Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifteen years ago the firm Blackett & Sample was organized by Chicago Admen Hill Blackett and John Glen Sample. In 1927 E. (for Edward) Frank Hummert, longtime newspaperman, Liberty Loan slogan writer ("Bonds or Bondage") and pressagent, joined the firm as copy writing chief. In 1930 pretty, brown-haired Anne Ashenhurst, newspaperwoman, was hired to help him. With his young new aide, Frank Hummert discovered that the jackpot in the radio business was the serial "script show...
John Gratin McCarthy, the "honest Irishman," went to work for a Board of Trade firm as messenger boy in 1903. He was 13 at the time and used to sneak out the back door of his home so the gang would not see him in his first pair of long pants. Before long he struck up a friendship with his boss's son, Walter Scoville, a lad of about the same age. In 1921 they formed a partnership, Scoville & Co. (now called McCarthy & Scoville). Broker McCarthy was one of the organizers of the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House...
...future of outside activities, including sports, is in, a certain haze. House debating, discussion groups, and even House sports are well started and well equipped to last at Harvard. But the more time-consuming activities and sports are not on such firm ground. Except for the just plain "loafers," these groups undoubtedly supply the tutoring schools with their most willing material. And the trend of increased concentration and increased pressure due to the influx of more and more students chosen from grade competition makes these activities a hazardous undertaking from the scholastic point of view. President Conant's words were...
Like Lawyers Holmes, Cardozo and Brandeis, Lawyer Frankfurter is a firm believer in judicial self-limitation. The most relevant qualifications for a Supreme Court appointee, he once wrote, "are his breadth of vision, his imagination, his capacity for disinterested judgment, his power to discover and suppress his prejudices...
...Vive Daladier! Vive la France!" rang out with spontaneity in Corsica, Tunisia and Algiers last week as Premier Edouard Daladier toured France's Mediterranean and North African possessions. The Daladier visit was officially an inspection of French defenses. Actually it was France's firm reply to recent, inspired Italian clamor for Corsica and Tunisia. Last week's answer told Italy: "Just try to take them...