Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poor Irish maiden. He pokes fun at his own plot shamelessly for folk in the good seats, and interrupts it incessantly with sentimental love ballads for the masses in the gallery. All this is done with ineffable geniality and unceasing speed. Folksy customers will love it; firm-minded moderns will squirm. Mr. Cohan himself appears; acts a little, sings a little, does a little dance...
President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange appeared on the rostrum for the second time in ten days to declare a member expelled. This time it was G. B. Todd, sole floor representative of the firm of Gordon B. Todd & Co., who had violated two rules: 1) pledging more securities of certain customers than was fair in view of the customer's indebtedness to the firm; 2) failing to answer that part of the questionnaire regularly submitted by the Exchange to its members in which explanation is demanded of how the firm guards against just...
Harbison-Walker in shaping their bricks squeeze their clay or ganister mixture into a long greyish bar which, as it crawls out the mold, resembles a creeping crocodile. A slicer armed with steel wires cuts the firm bar into separate bricks just as a string cuts a bar of Ivory soap...
...already (through Doubleday, Page) started a chain of U. S. bookstores which will provide the most extensive retail machinery known to bookmakers. Doubleday, Doran & Co. will do everything for an author but write his book; and for a reader, everything but read it. In England the famed firm of William Heinemann, Ltd., is the property of the new company, hav ing been controlled for some time by Doubleday, Page. William Heinemann is dead. Fourteen miles outside of London stands the Heineman plant. The total list of active titles of these combined companies (including lesser subsidiaries) will be about...
...murmurs Harry Hansen, literary critic of the New York World, replied: "So far as controlling writing-that is impossible ... no one can get a stranglehold on brains. The products of writing men crop up in the most unexpected places, and every now and then a wholly unknown and obscure firm makes a ten-strike with a newcomer. . . . The making of books is free and unconfined, and unless someone gobbles up all the paper in the world, so it must continue...