Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youthful slightness about him. a trimness of figure that makes it hard to believe that he could have been old enough to serve as an officer in the Spanish War. Today he looks hardly older than when he was a junior partner in the St. Paul law firm of Palmer, Beak and Mitchell...
Thus, still firm upon "the highest moral grounds," Dr. Schacht yielded and agreed-making clear that he agreed under duress-that the Reichsbank will subscribe its B. I. S. quota. This removed the last real obstacle to complete agreement at The Hague; but throughout Germany a tempest of controversy brewed. Whereas a few weeks ago ratification of the Young Plan by the Reichstag seemed certain, correspondents of nearly all major news services now filed long despatches full of ominous doubts. Skillful Dr. Schacht had roused in the German public mind a fear that Dr. Curtius had conceded too much...
...four British dominions were paired and spaced. Canada & Australia on His Majesty's right beyond the French, New Zealand & South Africa at his left beyond the Japanese. India still in tutelage, and the Irish Free State, were sandwiched tight between firm Mother Britain and grim Italy...
...Conference. Firm seemed the massive throne of George V last week, but it had toppled over and fallen ignominiously upon its side, while being carried over from the House of Lords proper to the Royal Gallery...
...Manhattan firms participating in the U. S.-German building group which will revamp Rumania's housing are those of Maurice Blumenthal, co-builder of the Pennsylvania Railroad's sub-Hudson River tunnels, and David M. Oltarsh, whose achievements include four Childs restaurants and Fifth Avenue's smartmart, Kurzman. Mr. Blumenthal and Major Oltarsli each managed to announce last week that his firm was participating in the contract without mentioning the other. Architect for "the most magnificent Capitol Building in Europe" will be H. Craig Severance, who devised the new 72-story Bank of Manhattan Co., now building...