Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witness was Miss Savidge's father. He established that he has been "a confidential clerk to a firm of accountants in Lincoln's Inn Fields for 21 years," and explained that both he and Mrs. Savidge have known from the first of their 22-year-old daughter's occasional dinners and excursions with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 58, married...
...tons, 264 feet overall, twin-screw Diesel engines developing 3,200 horsepower, speed of 16 knots, all-steel hull. Skipper-owner Vincent Astor, Brother-in-law Prince Obolensky, several friends and crew of 45 had brought her from Kiel, Germany, where she had been built by the firm of Fried & Krupp from plans by Theodore E. Ferris, Manhattan naval architect. She had met some storms on the way, but she conquered them almost as easily as the 59,957-ton Leviathan. Virtually unsinkable, she was built to tease all manner of weather and unruly seas...
...conduct inconsistent with just and equitable practices of trade," Edwin H. Stern, partner in the brokerage firm of E. H. Stern & Co., was expelled from membership in the New York Stock Exchange, last week. He had made a personal profit of $1,000 in a complicated floor deal, while acting as a specialist in Manhattan Shirt stock. In 1910, Mr. Stern paid some $75,000 for his Stock Exchange seat. Now, when his seat is sold, he will receive a sum in the neighborhood...
That blatant vegetarian and seer, George Bernard Shaw, has never set foot in the U. S. and swears that he never will. Yet, last week, his face was seen and his voice was heard in Manhattan. The Movietone of the firm of William Fox accomplished the trick. Mr. Shaw was caught walking idly in his garden. Suddenly he stopped, faun-like, and looked into the camera as if it were just a jolly surprise. Then, with his beard close to the camera, he began to talk and confess to the public what a genial and gentle old fellow he really...
...investigating charges of incompetence made against Louis Lipsky. The judges found that Louis Lipsky had been guilty of irregularities, excessions of authority, loose management and the like, as in the instance of endorsing a note for $2,000 to one Mrs. Dorothy E. Lefkowitz, the treasurer of some private firm. The report suggested that no one should lose confidence in the Zionist movement owing to Louis Lipsky's mismanagements, asserted that these have caused no monetary loss, urged that "no one responsible for the irregularities pointed out should be continued as an officer or a member of any committee...