Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...axis, by its recent conquests, forms a solid bulwark across the center of the continent. France and Britain are isolated. But the Fascist powers have not the necessary resources to carry on a lengthy European conflict. If Germany and Italy are to challenge the world, they must establish a firm hegemony over the entire area lying between the Third Reich and Russia. The chances of the creation of such a totalitarian dominion, Mr. Hutton evaluates in bold, logical fashion...
...confident Tom Dewey was pleasantly surprised when the jury returned less than seven hours after it went out. His smile broke into a relieved grin as to each of the 13 counts in the Hines indictments the jury's foreman, a meat salesman, Leonard T. Hobert, chanted a firm "Guilty...
...owners scorn to display them, practically no graduate of the nation's 30,000 high schools and 1,000 colleges would dream of leaving school without one, and most elementary school graduates demand them, too. Mr. Welch's company, which supplies twice as many as any other firm, sells some 500,000 a year in high schools and colleges and 100,000 in elementary schools. Last week it started production of the 1939 models...
...York Life, Alfred E. Smith solicited fuel oil contracts for certain of its properties; 2) Mutual Life's deposit at Bankers Trust Co. jumped from $150,000 to $1,500,000 when Bankers Trust's President S. Sloan Colt became a director; 3) the Chicago law firm of Mitchell D. Follansbee, director of Metropolitan Life, has received $334,000 in fees from the Metropolitan since...
...practically impossible for anyone who has hit the jackpot of a slot machine to keep from trying it again. The Manhattan publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart hit the public jackpot hard with the first of the 1,000-page historickal-romantickal novels, Anthony Adverse. After five years of wistful abstinence (particularly trying because meanwhile Macmillan hit an even bigger pot with Gone...