Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President of the Channel Tunnel Co. Ltd. is Baron Emile Beaumont d'Erlanger, potent internationalist, chairman of the great Anglo-French banking firm of Erlangers, Ltd., naturalized Briton. Enthusiastic fellow supporters include H. Gordon Selfridge, U. S.-born London department store tycoon, and Sir William Bull, senior partner of Bull and Bull, eloquent solicitors. They were pleased but cautious at last week's report. Beside the obvious opposition of cross-Channel steamship companies, other timorous Tories like Lord Ebbisham, the Channel tunnel must still be approved by the Committee of Imperial Defense...
Once again the firm hand of Labor has grasped at the working tranquility of Harvard University, when members of the Iron Workers Union now working at the Elevated Power Plant conducted a strike that threatened to cripple the work not only on the plant itself, but also the progress on Lowell and Dunster Houses...
Instant results: The whole list of stocks on the Berlin Borse went off an average of six points, shares of the Reichsbank itself tumbled 15 points. Strongest industrials could not resist the blow. Salz-detfurth Potash lost 13 points, and the gigantic firm of Siemens & Halske (comparable in Germany to U. S. General Electric) was knocked for a loss of twelve. If the Director of the Reichsbank did not sell short before he handed his resignation to President Paul von Hindenburg, he resisted titanic temptation, proved himself indeed an "Iron...
Last week's buy, the 100-year-old Inquirer, has been in the hands of the Elverson family since 1890. James Elverson, Civil War telegrapher to Secretary of State Seward, made the Inquirer the organ of Pennsylvania Republicanism. So firm was his conviction that employment advertisements increased circulation, that Philadelphians used to say "if you see a man carrying the Inquirer, he's out of work...
...Grand Old Party, Taft as President tempered with perhaps too much caution the flery reform policy of Roosevelt, his friend and predecessor. Nevertheless, the qualities that he lacked as a leader were more than amply balanced by his devotion to public welfare outside of personal reward and his firm interpretation of the National Constitution. Rhetoric beats a shallow drum before the figure of a man whose effort was not stinted with egoism, whose diseeraing eyes were not slow to kindle with humanity. As a man who played many integral parts against the shifting background of national affairs his death destroys...