Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public unless checked by an independent inspection. Senator Davis had friends, he said, who would help him finance such an inspection. None of them had any private utility connection, he said, nor had Accountant Conick, his choice for the job. Mr. Conick is a checker-upper whose firm (Main & Co.) has often been called in to clean up after Pennsylvania politicians, whose findings drove from office Pittsburgh's rapacious mayor, the late Charles H. Kline...
Writer Johnston had suggested Son Roosevelt's income from his Boston insurance firm of Roosevelt & Sargent was between $250,000 and $2,000,000 a year. Reply (with photographs of his income-tax returns): James Roosevelt's taxable income was as follows...
...cracked last week: "If you could get together all those people who think they are Supermen and who really are not, it is my firm belief that they could work out a plan for peace. Peace can be planned in just the same way as an attack against cancer. My main proposal is that there should be a World Peace Conference...
...Benjamin Balish had saved $5,300 from peddling spoiled pineapples to slum dwellers on Manhattan's lower East Side. Then he turned to onions, at one time was making about $175,000 a year as active partner in Dingfelder & Balish, Manhattan onion and potato jobbing firm. Claiming he was U. S. "Onion King," Ben Balish last year bought out his partner, quiet, wealthy Carl I. Dingfelder (TIME, Oct. 18). Last fortnight, the 42-year-old Onion King declared himself broke, asked permission to reorganize Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. under Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...
...last year in buying Partner Dingfelder's interest, had plunged too heavily on several bad deals since 1929. In filing for bankruptcy, the Onion King listed liabilities of $150,970, assets of $414,576. Among the latter were $160,000 representing goodwill and value of the firm's brand, $42,000 listed as "advance to Ben Balish...