Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attorneys rose, started for the door. Mr. Ritter remained seated with arms folded, as if his disgrace glued him to his chair. Finally he half rose, and for a moment seemed about to collapse. Then, with an effort, he stood erect, marched out of the Senate Chamber with a firm step. Newshawks crowded around asking questions. With a look of anguish in his eyes he declared: "I have nothing to say. God, can't you see why I have nothing to say? I'm going back to Florida...
...last month had provided a fine, fresh precedent by its rough & ready remilitarization of the Rhineland. The permanent security of the Dardanelles had been guaranteed jointly at Lausanne by Britain, France and Italy, all three of whom were in a serious snarl last week at Geneva. Turks had a firm friend and warm supporter in France's new ally, Soviet Russia, which would secretly like to see the Dardanelles fortified against the navies of capitalist powers. Italy's War booty of the heavily fortified Dodecanese Islands are within a short cruise of the Dardanelles and Italy today...
During the past few months, gains in business volume* have lofted hopes that Price Bros, may soon be in the black again. Fortnight ago a new combination jumped into the picture. Front for this group was a new company called Pacona Ltd., sponsored by the Manhattan firm of Lehman Bros., and Canadian affiliates of Aluminum Co. of America, including Saguenay Power Co., Price's largest unsecured creditor. Pacona's offer was the answer to a protective committee's dream: cash for principal, back interest and all committee expenses...
...reminded of nothing so much as that autumn day in 1918 when Kaiser Wilhelm threw up the sponge and took the next train for Holland. The rules of our country are-abdicating their thrones with distressingly little thought of what anarchy is to stalk abroad when the firm hand that has been our guide for so long has vanished...
...past 20 years her method has changed little. Her counsel on domestic problems and affairs of the heart is usually characterized by a firm practicality. When two youths asked whether they should marry rich or poor girls, Miss Dix candidly told them, that while love was the basis of happy marriage, always to remember that money was a handy thing. Each young man married a prosperous lady. One later complained that he had been wrongly advised. Hedged Dorothy Dix: "He couldn't have been very much in love with her in the first place...