Word: firming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will Clayton, he claimed, had cleaned up $5 million through cotton sales abroad by his brokerage firm, at the same time that he was actively urging U.S. loans to foreign buyers. Said he: "Mr. Clayton is a well-known one-worlder in do-gooder circles, and I must admit that he does believe in one world-one world for Will Clayton and family...
Turning to Dean Acheson, Paul Shafer gleefully quoted some gossip from Manhattan's socialistic New Leader, concluded that if the $500 million Polish loan goes through, a million dollar fee would be paid to the Acheson law firm for its help...
...year, had supervised the rest "to the substantial benefit of the Government and the American cotton farmer." Dean Acheson announced that he had given up his law practice the day he entered the State. Department, had since had "no connection with or financial interest in the business of the firm...
...member of the New York law firm of Cadwallader, Wickersham and Taft, Kane was First Marshal of his class as well as captain of the 1921 Varsity football squad. After his graduation, the Navy and Marine veteran of World War I attended Oxford for a year but returned to Cambridge and the Law School...
...dead center, coattails flapping, briefcase in one hand, broom in the other, he marched down the corridor, heading for home, with the firm tread of a man who has thought of everything...