Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class at the end of his first year and at the end of his course. That such a man, still bashful, should this year become a partner of the most famed lawyer in the land while contemporaries were struggling as clerks, is not only astounding but characteristic of the firm...
What is characteristic of the firm is the character of its chief. Exteriors, sociability, connections mean little or nothing to him. Solitude and brain output thereof is his delight...
Meanwhile the Senate's ultimate confirmation appeared certain. Mr. Hughes hurried last week to close out his connection with his firm and assume his centre seat on the court when it reassembles...
Professor Kennelly was born in Bombay. India in 1861, and after attending private schools in England and Scotland, studied at the University College, in London. From 1887 to 1894 he served as Principal electrical assistant to Thomas Edison, and following this, became a member of a firm of consulting engineers in Philadelphia...
Lincoln was one of the most original letter-writers who ever penned an official communication. His famed letter giving Hooker command of the Army of the Potomac is too long to quote. Here is one written when Lincoln was still a lawyer in Springfield, to a Manhattan firm which had inquired about the financial standing of a certain Springfield citizen. Said Lincoln: "First of all, he has a wife and a baby; together they ought to be worth $500,000 to any man. Secondly, he has an office in which there is a table worth $1.50, and three chairs worth...