Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler. The Führer was said to be contemplating far-reaching changes in Nazi administration on January 30, the sixth anniversary of Nazi rule. Having failed to give his usual Christmas broadcast to Germany's children, Dr. Goebbels rallied for New Year's, and in a firm, clear voice expressed the general feeling in Germany that 1938 had been a great year for the Nazis. Said the doctor: "Never has it been so hard to say good-by to a dying year as to 1938. It was a magnificent year filled with victories and successes like none...
Broker Joseph Sisto, debonair son of Italian immigrants, spoke no English until he was ten, worked his way through high school and Wall Street to found his own firm in 1922. His first suspension was the result of overexpansion nipped by depression. Broker Sisto, good friend of Benito Mussolini, was in Italy visiting his many clients there when the crash came. He sped home, quickly arranged to pay his creditors 50? on the dollar, made up the balance with shares in Sisto Financial Corp., his personal investment trust...
Reinstated by the Exchange, Joseph Sisto next made news in the Seabury investigation of Jimmie Walker. It came out that in 1929 he had given Mayor Walker $26,000 worth of bonds-just after his firm had a hand in a $5,000,000 bond issue for a taxi concern and just before Mayor Walker created a Board of Taxicab Control...
...three weeks officers and directors of the swindled drug firm had been telling New York's Assistant Attorney General Ambrose V. McCall that they had no reason to suspect the late F. (for Philip) Donald (for Musica) Coster. Not so, said Mr. Catchings...
...banking house of Mitsui, which had backed the new Emperor Meiji, emerged as the most potent financial force in new Japan. Masuda, now an exporter of rice, tea and silk, joined forces with the Mitsui family in 1876 and launched Mitsui Bussan Kai-sha (Mitsui & Co., Ltd.), the trading firm which became the largest single unit of the vast Mitsui empire...