Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell to a Negro housewife. Last week in a federal courtroom, in a small firm voice, she uttered the sentence which cut off the head of the Communist Party...
...indefatigable man meanwhile had been pursuing his own career as a practicing attorney. He left Tuttle's firm to go on his own. ("Anyone dropping a nickel near me was taking a chance.") He got into appeals work and until 1931 did nothing else. In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy. His first trial case was in 1931 when he defended young Herbert Singer, of the Bank of United States. He won Singer's freedom finally on an appeal. For the next 14 years...
...Maintenance of Labor's social services, and "a house, and a good house, for every family . . . How to achieve it? Set the private builder free . . ." ¶ Abolition of the House of Lords.* ¶ "Joint action" and "firm friendship" with the U.S., but "it must be friendship of equal partners...
...Wall Street, Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Edmond M. Hanrahan, 44, decided that it was time to watch his family's financial security and his wife's health. Last week, "with great reluctance," he resigned from the $10,000-a-year job to return to the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan, Donovan & Heenehan as a partner. No politico, Hanrahan considered SEC a regulatory rather than a reform agency, thus got along fine with Wall Streeters. Besides, he understood Wall Street's problems and talked its language. During Hanrahan's reign as chairman, the Hoover Commission praised...
Pins & Packing. The flower company grows no orchids itself, buys them at 4? apiece from 428 island growers. It boasts that it is the "only firm in the world which can get an order for 50,000 vandas and ship them out the same...