Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles the Baptist. The son of a Baptist Minister, he read Greek at eight, graduated from Brown University at 19, studied law and joined a Manhattan law firm. The public first heard of him in 1905. Appointed a special counsel, he investigated a scandalous gas monopoly and won a consequential cut in rates. He also uncovered a venal conspiracy between city officials and New York insurance firms. On the strength of these crusades, he was elected governor of New York over the Democratic nominee, William Randolph Hearst...
...always led us with a firm hand through many dark valleys...
...handling money; she started a dress pattern business (Hollywood Patterns) which boomed for 17 years. She was also a successful art dealer (she divorced her first husband, Art Dealer Paul Reinhardt, in 1934). In 1940 she married Albert D. Lasker; two years later he liquidated his rich advertising firm, Lord & Thomas, to busy himself with good works in science and medicine. Both the Laskers are interested in "finding out what is wrong, then helping people who try to clean up the mess...
...week's end the press reluctantly dropped the Babe Ruth Story-and a sheetmusic firm brought out a new number, dedicated to the Babe's memory, called Safe at Home...
With this firm keynote, 329 bishops and archbishops of the Anglican Communion reported last week on the results of the eighth Lambeth Conference.* On Oct. 10 their encyclical letter will be read to congregations around the globe in a hundred languages. Lambeth's proceedings do not bind the communion's 20,000,000 members. But as the London Times observed: "This solid body of coherent theological doctrine . . . must be regarded ... as a formidable fact in world thought and opinion...