Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Methodist minister, he was inordinately proud of his Scotch-Irish background and of the fact that his ancestors had fought in every North American war since the Revolution. At one time or another, he had run a chain of banks in Texas, a gas company, a cotton exporting firm, a flour mill, a steel company, a ranch and 38 Mississippi plantations on which he had found...
Five full-time religious songwriters and two song editors grind out a large part of the some 600 new gospel songs published by the firm every year. To outside writers (who submit more than 5,000 songs a year) Stamps-Baxter pays $5 to $10 for each song published. The company also runs a school in Dallas to train itinerant song leaders, has four traveling quartets...
Fourteen prospective buyers, including a big insurance firm and MIT, are already bidding for the old headquarters. Announcement of the sale will come as soon as appraisers can assess the value. Once the new owner moves in, there's a good chance he will be able to hire back some of the help Lever will soon be dismissing...
Cambridge businessmen feel that Lever Brothers' decision was a move not to escape from Cambridge but simply to get to New York where the firm can gather all of its offices under one roof and keep close watch over its Manhattan advertising agencies. The Chamber of Commerce can supply several convincing arguments that Cambridge's industrial position is still strong...
Then David C. Poskanzor '50 offered an informal evaluation of the NSA to Harvard. He said that it was his "firm conviction that unless the College delegation becomes completely self supporting the Council should stop sponsoring...