Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indignation was expressed in the House of Commons when it was learned that Mr. McNeill, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, had leased the right to film the signing of the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Nov. 2) to a single cinema firm for only...
...Pope named these four, each cardinal present rose in his place, lifted his scarlet biretta as sign of agreement or mayhap retained it in firm objection. Who, if any, dissented from the Pope's nomination, no outsider will ever know, for each cardinal has gone through the ceremony of the "opening and closing of the mouth" as token of his silence on papal matters...
Customers of J. P. Benkard & Co., Manhattan stockbrokers entering the offices of the firm one morning last week, stared in amazement at a clerk who was putting up the opening prices, for this individual was clad like no other clerk in the history of Wall Street. He had on a pale smock with a rolling collar and an open neck-a garment of the type that is popularly supposed to be the uniform of artists in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Its color was light blue. In the office, a score of clerks were visible through a glass door, bending...
...stand based on convictions, on a mode of conduct the mere thought of which causes us these days to be bored." One might conclude from this that Mr. Farrar's ideal American is the alert active person whose been eye takes in any given situation at a glance, whose firm feet immediately plant them selves immovably on one side of the fence in question, whose active mind thereafter either views with alarm what lies beyond the fence or points proudly to what he stands beside on the right side...
...Guinzburg '21 and G. S. Oppenheimer '21 have established in New York City a publishing house which is to take over the business of B. W. Huebsch, Inc. The new firm is to be called The Viking Press...