Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dozen commonplace-seeming men waited simultaneously one morning last week in the several London offices of the world's principal news agencies. Their cards betokened them representatives of an advertising firm. When they were admitted, they laid before thunderstruck news executives a round robin signed by over 100 of the world's most potent financiers, calling upon European nations to remove their tariff hindrances to international trade...
...25th year with money from a moneyed uncle. He built so well that he was able to do private banking in a big way, extending credit and signing notes for the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. and, during the panic of 1873, for many a Baltimore and Philadelphia firm. He aided Southerners after the Civil War with credit, meeting George Peabody who was doing the same thing. Here was a coincidence: both men were bachelors, both had made fortunes of ten millions, Peabody by advancing cash, Hopkins by advancing credit. Johns Hopkins learned that George Peabody had given Harvard University...
Marshall Field had been born on a New England farm himself-at Conway, Mass. Restless, he had gone to raw Chicago and had been hired to work for the general mercantile firm of Cooley, Farwell & Co., which was doing a big wholesale business with the towns of the prairies. This was in 1856. Marshall Field became a partner. The firm became Field, Palmer & Leiter. Potter Palmer withdrew and the name was changed to Field, Leiter & Co. Marshall Field became a rich man and became so through two business principles most unusual in the U. S. before the Civil...
...natural philosophy. He had long meditated the subject, and wrote concerning it to his friend, Benjamin Colman, as follows: "Though jeered and sneered at by many I leave the issue to the Lord, for whose sake Isperform these offices and services, and hope I shall be enabled to continue firm and finish this affair, which I call a good work...
...took a leading part in the cause of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay as a member of the Provincial Assembly and later of the Provincial Congress. During the latter part of his long life he devoted himself almost entirely to the study of theology, concerning which subject he held firm and very definite opinions. His funds, the management of which he had inputted to the President and Fellows of Harvard College and five associates, to be elected by them, and of whom "three were to be clergymen, and two not of that order" were used to establish the Dexter Lectureship...