Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence, such as it was, received penetrating scrutiny from would-be-calm General Zertuche. The lines of the sketch, he remarked, were firm and sure, showing no trace of perturbation, and the likeness was recognizable. Scowling thoughtfully...
Orphan. Farmer boy. Colleague of Yaqui Indians. Keeper of a general store. Employe of a U. S. engineering firm. Rural politician. Recruiter of a two-thirds Indian army in the revolution against Dictator Porfirio Diaz who had been seven times President of Mexico-such was the manner in which Orphan Obregon became General...
...mediums for comprehensive campaigns; next to newspapers, magazines. On the last day of their convention, they selected Minneapolis, after many words in favor of Berlin, as the scene of next year's convention; and they unanimously elected Charles Clark Younggreen, vice president & general manager of the Milwaukee advertising firm of Klau-VanPietersom-Dunlap-Younggreen, Inc., as president of the International Advertising Association...
Died. Sir David Yule, 69, "richest Scotch merchant," widower parent of Miss Gladys Yule, 24, to whom he leaves 20 million pounds; at London. Son-in-law of the late Andrew Yule of Calcutta, India, Sir David prodigiously expanded the firm of Andrew Yule & Co., Ltd., and founded 80 adidtional firms in which he retained controlling interest. In 1926 he contributed largely to an unselfish syndicate of liberals who purchased the Daily Chronicle from David Lloyd George at a price which netted the Welshman $14,500,000 profit and under an agreement whereby Liberal Lloyd George still controls the policy...
...culminated in the massacre of 1915 which seemed to justify American intervention. For in spite of unrest, foreign financial investments had reached proportions requiring protection. America took control first of the customs, then of national finance, and virtually all other administration, with "no object in view except to insure . . . firm government by the Haitian people...