Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kenneth MacKenna is a young husband, out to make good in the financial world. To him and to Peggy Wood, his ambitious wife, an appointment to the German office of his firm symbolizes success second only to an appointment to the Shanghai branch. On the day before the appointment is to be announced he resigns his position, feeling that he is not to get the coveted appointment. Next day he tells his wife, is still explaining away when in bursts an old flame. At this point Playwright Strong trephines the husband's skull, lays open the human brain. Centers...
Remorsefully the unfaithful husband returns to his wife and upon learning that his firm has rewarded the ambition which she stirred, he penitently confesses and is given absolution...
...realize what the class struggle is all about. They are bent upon feverish proletarianization and industrialization of all Russians-including peasants and Kulaks. Having taxed the town capitalist out of existence, they would do the same with the rural "Fist." Against this policy the Peasant President of Russia stands firm, patient and unalterable. Recently he said: "The Government of the Soviet Union must not and does not aim to crush the richer peasants, but simply to stop their undue aggrandizement at the expense of their poorer brethren...
...Blue one-foot line at the opening of the second period. A stubborn Eli defense resisted and took the ball on cowns. A second time a vicious assault in which Gilligan figured prominently carried the ball to the three-yard line, where the Yale forward wall again held firm...
Never during the campaign did Wall Street seriously entertain the possibility of Democratic victory. At the last, confidence in Republican success held the stockmarket firm, gave particular strength to public utility stocks. In the pre-election session, Commonwealth Power advanced 2½ points to a new high of 89⅜. Close behind were Columbia Gas, Consolidated Gas, American and foreign power...