Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while Secretary William Jennings Bryan preached Pacifism throughout the country. Once Mr. Lansing was aroused from bed to digress on international law. It was held "unnecessary to disturb Mr. Bryan." In the tense crescendo of feeling which led to the War, Mr. Lansing succeeded Mr. Bryan, was shrewd, logical, firm. He squashed propaganda, refused to be gulled by German Ambassador von Bernstorff. Elihu Root remarked an improvement in state papers...
Sternest purists applauded this firm, stand against illegitimate questions about France, asked in bad faith...
There occurred in Manhattan last week a party which partially answered both questions. The party was given to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their partnership, by the firm of Delano and Aldrich, architects, to their clients. Since Delano and Aldrich are architects who have made the kind of houses which rich people like to live in, their clients came to the party gratefully and bearing gifts; Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow sent by airplane from Mexico two silver bowls...
Good architects, like good doctors, resent publicity. There is nothing pretentious about the firm of Delano and Aldrich. The building in which they work, designing perhaps 30 mansions every year, as well as office buildings, schools and churches, is an old stable neatly rebuilt into studios and little rooms. At its front are some of the little round windows which, erroneously enough, have come to be regarded as identification discs upon the works of Delano and Aldrich...
Died. Edgar Wallace Peck, 69, Manhattan retail hosiery tycoon (Peck & Peck); in Manhattan. A distrusting landlord of the Peck brothers used to collect rent every 24 hours. The firm now owns 19 prospering shops...