Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...border seven weeks ago snarled the fighting forces of Japan and Russia. Moscow claimed the whole hill was in Soviet territory when the scrap started. But when a truce was finally arranged between Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff and Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan was left with her present firm hold on the westward slope of Changkufeng. Russia agreed to submit final ownership to arbitration, thus gave up her previous absolute claim to Changkufeng. For this truce Japan last week was ready to pay off in kudos. Tokyo dispatches prophesied the forthcoming promotion of Ambassador Shigemitsu to the highest rung...
...Russian field artillery and some thousands of Red Army troops were beaten back after Soviet Far East Marshal Vasily Bluecher had hurled them in a major offensive to recapture Changkufeng Hill. Mr. Stomoniakov, as. Moscow's ace Far East expert, had presumably been advising Commissar Litvinoff to stand firm and await a Russian victory. After Stomoniakov was fired, Commissar Litvinoff quickly came to terms with Ambassador Shigemitsu, who had proposed the truce in the first place. It became effective at noon on August 11-just four days after the secret ousting of Stomoniakov...
...side of the skull), pushed the upper end of the jaw forward with a small steel bar, and wedged a block of cartilage, which he had cut from the ribs, in front of the ear. The block served as an extension of the jaw bone, soon grew firm and strong, advanced the lower jaw four-fifths of an inch (see cut). The new position of the jaw naturally changed the bite of the patient, but it did not take him long to get used to it. "There was very little post-operative reaction or discomfort," said the Survey. "The patient...
...lucrative new field, trading in Government bonds. First kingpin in this field was Charles Frederick Childs, who sold his business in 1928 after flinty Andrew Mellon's slashing of the public debt by $10,000,000,000 slashed the turnover in "Governments." Although Trader Childs bought back his firm when Depression I brought a new tide of Federal financing, he is no longer kingpin. Now dominating the Government bond business is C. F. Childs's onetime head trader, Christopher J. Devine...
...Newark fireman, Christopher Devine went to work for Childs in 1925 as a $25-a-week office boy. Three years later, when he was only 23, he became head trader. In 1933 he launched his own firm with eight employes. Now it has 150. On its shelves often sit as much as $25,000,000 in Government securities, and Christopher Devine's pockets are supposedly lined with several million dollars. Blue-eyed, quiet, he belies his repute as a plunger. His greatest coup was last June's buying of an entire $60,000,000 issue of Pennsylvania...