Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same good works, and support very nearly the same causes and matters of public policy. An Irishman who is a Knight of Malta was elected to the presidency of the $50,000,000 Boston Edison Company, after serving a mixed apprenticeship at Holy Cross and the very Harvard firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden and Perkins. There is another who is a director on the board of Boston's dominant financial organization, the First National Bank. A third, who is also the most enthusiastic of all Harvard's football aficionados is the managing editor of the eminently conservative and old-school...
...grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal. ¶U. S. Columnist Westbrook Pegler arrived from London, reasoned that the miserable showing by the U. S. might be a benefit in disguise. Wrote he: "If the trip had been called off, the firm-jawed, clean-limbed, clear-eyed American athletes would have felt that they had been denied a great honor and privilege, to say nothing of a free trip to Europe, and might have blamed the Jews for that. Now, however, at most they demonstrated that they did not deserve so much...
After he rocks him gently for a while, his nurse takes firm hold of the patient's shoulders and Dr. Hantlig twists the patient's head from side to side. When the patient has had enough of this (usually two minutes), he signals his desire to be lowered by snapping his fingers...
Eleven years ago the directors of International Paper Co. plucked Archibald Robertson Graustein from a big Boston law firm, made him head of the world's biggest paper company at 39. Five years later President Graustein found love in the person of one Claire Patton, who was earning a modest living as a hostess in Manhattan's democratic Roseland Dance Hall. He whisked her off to Texas, married her. By this time Mr. Graustein's company was called International Paper & Power, and it was more a power company than paper company. Last week, having sloughed off most...
...lawyer, a utilitarian and a financier. Voluble, aggressive, brilliant, he finds it difficult to think in any except expansive terms. Son of a German-born Boston milk dealer, he romped through Harvard in two years, graduating magna cum laude. After Harvard Law School, he entered the Boston firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, learned about paper while reorganizing a paper company, was pushed into International by the Phipps interests. President Graustein's prime paper policy was volume at almost any cost. International now dominates the kraft industry, which mushroomed in the last 15 years, and accounts for nearly...