Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago with only $50 to his name, but with an abundance of shrewdness through his former work as a magician and hypnotist and was soon able to influence Macfadden in nearly every action. He played upon Mr. Macfadden's love of publicity. ... It is my firm belief that Mr. Oursler conceived and conspired with Gaston B. Means and others, the plan to take and hold for ransom the Lindbergh child (without intent to kill or harm it), only for publicity for Oursler and Mr. Macfadden. . . . "I feel sure that it was Mr. Oursler's intention, with...
...Empire but a sort of Roxified Renaissance is the Hotel Senator bar, and Architect Lansburgh had just two weeks to get the work done. Puzzling this problem he called in the fastest-working firm of mural painters he could think of, the Heinsbergen Decorating Co. of Los Angeles, and last week the job was done. Before the startled eyes of Empire Room drinkers appeared two 9-ft. panels, the first known murals on the subject of the Love of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson...
...will eventually manage all the trust funds Banker Hayden allotted to relatives and friends, including a $30,000 annuity for Anita Stewart de Braganga, widow of the pretender to the Portuguese throne. To Hayden, Stone & Co. the executors were empowered to lend $5,000,000 so that the banking firm might avoid "any embarrassment" during its management transition. Not to be decided until the Foundation's four administrators meet is whether Banker Hayden's millions will be spent in grants to existing schools and colleges, as many a bursar and overseer hoped last week, or by devising...
...acquaintances had subsided sufficiently to let him go out and about once more, Broker Burton, who had been ordered by the National Steeplechase & Hunt Association to turn in his amateur's license, gave his case, which he believed a likely one for libel damages, to a law firm which retained as trial counsel dapper Attorney Murray Bernays. They prepared to bring suit against the crack Manhattan advertising agency of William Esty & Co., R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., makers of Camels, and a long list of publications, headed by Crowell Publishing Co.'s Collier's and American Magazine...
...Spanish and not dead is Maurice Utrillo and last week under Britain's stringent libel laws he brought suit against the Tate Gallery, its director, James Bolivar Manson, and the former Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Waterlow, whose firm had printed the catalog. The Tate Gallery's smart lawyers quickly ap peared before the Master in Chambers and obtained an Order for Security Costs, which means that Plaintiff Utrillo must deposit a bond showing that he is able to pay the costs of the trial before his case can be heard. Even so, lawyers knowing the history...