Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct as President was firm, tactful, moderate. Even his political enemies realized that, if they had not a great man as head of the State, at least they had an able one. In 1918, when a surging multitude vociferously acclaimed him President of the Republic (he had then just succeeded Prince Max von Baden as Chancellor after the Imperial régime had fallen), he neither refused nor accepted, but passed the incident off with a statement that he must first consult the other leaders of the Social Democratic Party. It was a characteristic attitude and an attitude that...
Representatives of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine were questioned by TIME. Said they : "The firm of Heins '-& La Farge were the original architects. Mr. Heins died in 1907 and the contract Vith that firm expired about that time. Under their regime, the Cathedral was to be French Romanesque outside and Byzantine inside. "Ralph Adams Cram took over the work in June, 1911. The trustees ordered him not to go on with the old plan. He is the architect of the present model which is pure Gothic...
Detroit is a city of great manufacturing executives. None of them is greater than Alvan Macauley, President of the Packard Motor Car Co. A great, burly man with a firm yet benevolent face, a steady eye and a firm handshake, he combines perfect business efficiency with imagination and public spirit* At the present moment, the Packard Company may make tens of thousand of excellent automobiles per annum, but the production of a few super-motors for the Air Services pleases Mr. Macauley a great deal more...
...contribution to the Class Book of 1861 he first signified his intention of going into jurisprudence. He proposed that, should he survive his service in the war, he would try the law, "at least for a starter". This "starter" which he received 58 years ago in the firm of Shattuck, Holmes, and Munroe, determined the course of his life as one of America's foremost jurists...
...tutors, too, have begun to sense that the firm, confident tone displayed at their conferences is indeed an upward swing in the scholastic cycle, and not a more bull movement. No longer are a tutee's remarks confined to what he can assemble from the pigeon holes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. No longer does he deftly turn the conversation from Elizabethan to contemporary drama, on which he chats in his best demi-tasse manner. No longer...