Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting without money in a two-room shack, the government of the new Republic ran deeper & deeper into debt, while the slaveholding South worked for its annexation to the U. S. and the industrial North stood firm against it. Bushels of almost worthless Texas scrip held by Northern speculators had much to do with the change of sentiment which brought the new State into the Union in 1845. Sixteen years later Sam Houston, no longer a hero, lost his Governorship because he opposed Secession. Texas gave its share of men & supplies to the Confederate cause but, though the last battle...
...ante). Jim Thomas, after a week's brooding, returned the seals of the Colonial Office to King Edward VIII. A few hours later his son Leslie Thomas, whose clients had made a killing by insuring themselves against tax rises in the Budget, resigned from the Stock Exchange firm of Belisha & Co. This week, however, a court of inquiry exonerated Son Leslie. In scathing verbiage its report put the blame for the Budget leak squarely on Jim Thomas...
...Lady Charles Mendl, born Elsie de Wolfe, withered, bright-eyed Grand Old Woman of Franco-American socialites, was still doing back rolls, handstands and cartwheels in the garden of her Villa Trianon in Versailles to keep "young." And last week her prosperous, 31-year-old Manhattan decorating firm, Elsie de Wolfe, Inc., held its first exhibition of interiors...
...dark blue rug, fading blue walls, light blue ceiling, plenty of mirrors. Bachelor's Bedroom, to "appeal to a bachelor in search of a bedroom," was painfully ugly, notably in an iron bed "amusingly decorated in red and white bed ticking." "Drama" came from a crimson carpet. The firm's explanation of the room's confusion was that it was for "a person who has collected interesting things, from time to time." Georgian Dining Room fell back on the reliable bright turquoise blue and mirrors. Venetian Sitting Room mixed a magnificent pair of Venetian doors, a green...
Last week for the third time in a seven-year rise to riches, Charles Willard Young founded a Manhattan investment counsel firm. His first was Young & Ottley, launched in 1929 with the financial aid of a fellow Yaleman named James Henry Ottley. Young & Ottley promptly established itself by calling the stock-market crash. In 1933 young Mr. Young pulled out of Young & Ottley, moved from Manhattan's Chanin Building diagonally across 42nd Street to the Chrysler Building. There with new backers, notably James Cox Brady, Mr. Young set up an-other investment counsel firm called C. W. Young...