Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shocked was every orthodox economist who had considered the Landon stand a firm promise to end the New Deal's ill-starred silver policy. Not shocked at all were practical politicians who realized that Republican Hamilton was simply playing the old game of wooing the West...
...shorter would be to cut from Buckingham Palace straight across the park to Westminster Abbey. Seat prices along the official route promptly soared last week to as much as $200 for a small chair on a precarious roof ledge. In a patriotic effort not to profiteer, one London firm offered armchair seats in its shop windows for only $150 each, including sandwiches and coffee. In Paris last week Edward VIII's coming Coronation inspired famed Style Creator Schiaparelli to bring out an autumn collection featuring crown-shaped hats, regal brocades and embroideries, crown motifs on buttons...
...standard-sized mouthpiece. The Sousaphone was mounted on a rack so that Stanwurt could crawl into it, huff & puff, while his father accompanied on the accordion. Convinced of his offspring's commercial possibilities, George von Schilling copyrighted the name "Master Stan and His Sousaphone," induced a costume firm, Lilley Ames Co. of Columbus, Ohio, to provide a $100 cream-&-gold uniform for Stanwurt. Father von Schilling got engagements for Stanwurt and himself at Norfolk clubs, at the local Navy Yard Y. M. C. A., and at nearby Virginia Beach. Last week, with Stanwurt 4 years old, George von Schilling...
...Richard T. Fisher, first Director of the Harvard Forest at Petersham, Mass, evolved his scheme for teaching forestry through models. With some $30,000 from an anonymous donor, Director Fisher gave the contract to the professional model-making firm of Guernsey & Pitman. His instructions were that all the models should be of the same scale (half an inch to the foot), that the trees should not be random twigs and bits of painted sponge, but accurate reproductions which any naturalist could recognize...
...Firm-chinned Chairman Avery Brundage of the U. S. Olympic Committee got himself into the spotlight by putting Mrs. Jarrett off the U. S. team last fortnight. Last week busy Mr. Brundage had equally momentous things to deal with. First he read the Press a telegram from one Gregory Vigeant Jr. of Kansas City, which said: "Mrs. Jarrett's example to young Americans is deplorable." Next he announced that two boxers, Joe Church and Negro Howell King, had been dismissed from the team for "homesickness"' because "homesickness is a contagious disease." Finally, as a grand climax...