Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fredericksburg, Va., became a conscience-stricken wanderer, killed himself in Enid, Okla. in 1903 (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). Some other legendary survivors: Louis Charles, Dauphin of France; Earl Kitchener; Tsar Nicholas II; Belgian Banker Alfred Lowenstein. As the years passed there grew up in the North Carolina countryside a firm belief that Peter Stuart Ney had actually been the Marshal of France. Amateur historians delved into the matter, wrote earnest monographs and pamphlets. Their explanation: Marshal Ney's firing squad was composed of his old comrades-in-arms. They put blank cartridges in their guns, smuggled him aboard...
...Imperial Japanese Government, having ascertained that news mentions of King Edward and Mrs. Simpson have been snipped out of periodicals before they could be sold on newsstands in Great Britain, recently put a firm query to the Foreign Office: Could this form of British censorship be enlarged to include the sacred person of the Emperor of Japan...
...case, the name stuck, though the place was to be found on no map, never had a post office, a church, or an incorporated government. Fifty years ago much of Hell burned down. Later the distillery was abandoned, became a hogpen. Twelve years ago a real-estate firm acquired Hell, turned it into a tourist resort under the name Hi-Land Lake...
...Along with two other executives, Avery Rockefeller resigned from Manhattan's J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp. to set up a new investment house called Schroder Rockefeller & Co. which will handle the underwriting and general securities business given up by the U. S. branch of the famed old London firm under the Banking...
...company will be largely owned by the old London firm and young Banker Rockefeller, who went into Schroder's Manhattan affiliate not long after he left Yale. Blond, wiry, aggressive. Banker Rockefeller will hold down a vice presidency in his new firm. Another vice president will be his old colleague, Gerald E. ("Jerry"') Donovan. The presidency will go to Carlton P. Fuller, oldtime Schroder official...