Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierpont Morgan, of New York City, a graduate of Harvard College in 1889, and head of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, bankers, has been chosen as president of the Harvard Alumni Association for the current year, to succeed Allston Burr, '89, of Boston, according to an announcement made public today...
...same time: E. C. Felton, '79, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, former president of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Dr. E. H. Pool, '95, of New York City, surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, J. O. Proctor, Jr., '01, of Milton, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar of Boston and S. H. Wolcott, '03, of Boston, vice-president of the State Street Trust Company, a former director of the Alumni Association...
...learn no connection between the Bemberg and Glanzatoff labor situation and the discovery last week that the acting President of these mills was on his bed, with his wrists slashed, dead. In Rockhill, S. C., the United Textile Workers held a conference, proclaimed "No Communists wanted here," announced their firm intention of organizing the whole southern textile industry under the A. F. of L. At Washington, Senator Wheeler of Montana introduced, at the request of President William Green of the A. F. of L., a resolution for a Federal investigation of the textile South...
...Damoclean sword has been hanging over the tobacco industry. Instead, two keen blades have been slashing away at it. Last week there were indications that firm hands had reached out, stopped one blade and grasped at the other. First and most destructive of the industry's two menaces has been the price cutting war between manufacturers, begun in April, 1928 when the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reduced the price of Camels from the long established rate of $6.40 a 1,000 to $6. Quick to follow were Liggett & Myers with Chesterfields and Piedmonts, and the American Tobacco...
Some of These Days", which Miss Tucker made for the Columbia firm some time ago, has been a best seller, and is still in some demand around Harvard Square. Her other similar records have met with responsive receptions at the time of issue...