Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sporting simplicities was included in a finding that the Secretary of Agriculture had arbitrarily and improperly fixed maximum rates to be charged by the Fred 0. Morgan Sheep Commission Co., of Kansas City. Mo. Attorney for Fred O. Morgan was persuasive Frederick Hill Wood of the potent Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, who argued down NRA and the first Guffey Coal Control Act. Arguing for Fred 0. Morgan, Mr. Wood contended that the Secretary had issued his order without a complete knowledge of the facts gathered by subordinates, had erred in denying the company a chance...
Daladier and Bonnet "fulfilled the French dream of establishing a complete Anglo-French defensive alliance" according to Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. of the New York Times's London office, while its P. J. Philip in Paris thought "they have accomplished what no other French ministers have ever done ... a firm agreement between Great Britain and France to stand together and fight together if and when they must fight." Flashed from London International News Service's Kingsbury Smith: "A new western frontier beyond which Germany will be forbidden to trespass was created today by France and Great Britain, simultaneously with...
...that Continental has since been looted so thoroughly that only $20,000 in marketable securities are left. In the process Continental acquired control of an investment trust named Reynolds Investing Co., which is now being investigated by SEC. Brokerage transactions for both were handled by the firm of Prentice & Brady which began liquidation April first and is now being investigated by the Attorney General's office (TIME, April 25). C. When the ig-year-old firm of Hoagland & Allum went into receivership with a shortage of some $700.000 to $750,000, and only $196 in the till, Chicago...
...York Attorney General's office last week began hearings on the dealings of the Wall Street firm of Prentice & Brady, which began voluntary liquidation on April 1. Partners Sartell Prentice and Jerome C. Brady refused to testify, but their cashier stated that the firm had been guilty of "over-hypothecation" of customers' securities, that no customer had sustained a loss...
...Filed with President Gay last week, but not made public, was a report of a committee appointed to recommend some way to bond officers or insure market accounts against failure of a firm...