Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm of Wilson and Colby (ex-President and former Secretary of State) had declined in 1922 a large fee from Sinclair to represent him in a threatened Senate investigation. Mr. Wilson believed it improper for a former official to represent a private party before the Government...
...rumor that Doheny had employed Mr. Colby at one time was denied through Mr. Doheny's attorney-"never in his life did he employ or offer to employ Bainbridge Colby or any member of any firm with which Mr. Colby was connected...
...Watseka, Ill., in 1866. He was graduated from the University of Illinois, completed his studies in Europe by help of the Rotch traveling scholarship. A close friend of the late Stanford White, he was at one time connected with Mc-Kim, Mead & White. In 1897 he started the firm of Brite & Bacon in New York, finally in 1903 establishing himself alone as one of America's most successful architects...
Johann Buddenbrook. The son of the founder of the firm. "A kind papa, a worthy man." A German of the old 18th Century school who "never in all his life has worn a pair of trousers." Able in business, he has raised the Buddenbrooks to their important position. What if he is a rough diamond, who sometimes forgets himself and relapses into low German dialect before the fine guests...
...awarded to John William Lieb, operating Vice President of the New York Edison Co., who has made New York the model light and power city of the world. Over 30 years ago, when Lieb was just out of Stevens Tech, he got a job with Thomas A. Edison. The firm had a contract to build a great electrical plant in Italy. "Send Lieb," said Edison. He was only 22, but he did the job and stayed in charge of the Italian company for 12 years. Lieb's story, together with those of the 13 previous recipients of the Edison Medal...