Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taught young Louis Arthur Johnson that there was only one profession fitting for a Virginia gentleman. Be a lawyer, he advised the boy, a lawyer and a Democrat. Shortly after his grandfather's death, 16-year-old Louis announced, in a characteristically firm fashion: "I am going to be on the Supreme Court of the United States some...
...partner, Philip Steptoe, a shy, scholarly wizard on briefs, was the office legal eagle. Hustling Louis Johnson made friends and drummed up business. Between them, they made an unbeatable combination. The firm of Steptoe & Johnson began branching out-to Charleston and on to Washington...
After five days of match play, the task of turning back the Americans fell squarely on the broad shoulders of 200-lb. Ulsterman Sam McCready. Not many people had heard of 31-year-old Sam: a salesman for a London tobacco firm, he had never swung a club in the nationals before. But in the semifinals, there was Sam, wearing a fixed half-smile on his broad face. He teed off against Frank Stranahan. A brisk wind blew in from the Irish Sea. Between the wind and Sam McCready's smile, Stranahan's game folded up. He went...
...firm believer in interfaith understanding, Editor Stewart, a member of the United Presbyterian Church, has taught at a Methodist Sunday school, and every year goes on a three-day Roman Catholic retreat. During summers, he preaches what he practices by substituting in the pulpit for vacationing Protestant pastors. But Stewart's own pastor considers him a disappointing churchgoer. Since he started covering the God beat, Frank Stewart has been to his own church just twice...
...University of Georgia, Gene Black became a World War I Navy ensign at 19. At war's end he went into investment banking in Atlanta, became manager of the local office of Chase-Harris, Forbes Corp. in 1931, two years later was made assistant vice president. When the firm was dissolved, Gene became a second vice president of Chase, this year rose to senior vice president. (He will now resign from Chase...