Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cool little utilitarian had with his answers. Freely he testified that up to June 30 the Power lobby had spent $301,365 on its fight against the Public Utility Bill. Half of this sum had been donated by holding companies, half by Edison Electric Institute. Two Manhattan law firms were paid $75,000 each. The famed publicity firm of Ivy Lee & T. J. Ross received $5,000 per month, plus traveling expenses. Mr. Gadsden himself, with a salary of $30,000 per year from the U. G. I., got $500 or $600 per month for Washington expenses...
Paying less & less attention to his material condition, Rembrandt worked faster & faster. When his son died, he wore his best to the grave, a ragged, fur-lined coat daubed with paint. A year later, a puff-eyed, firm-jawed 63-year-oldster. deserted except by a few kinswomen and the neighborhood Jews, he died. His fame as a painter had long since vanished into the attics of Amsterdam, apparently forever...
...Arthur Stimson Draper was sent to London as chief of the New York Tribune's European bureaus. Result is that, at 52, Brooklyn-born Arthur Draper sports a Guards mustache, fancies burly tweeds, puffs a briar pipe, boasts a son educated at Cambridge and is a firm believer in Tradition. Consequently his colleagues on the Herald Tribune, to which he had returned as assistant editor, were somewhat surprised when in 1933 Mr. Draper took over the editorship of The Literary Digest with the announcement: "Its columns offer unusual opportunities at this time of profound change...
...announced his retirement from the Hearst organization. Friends, who had often heard tense, febrile Editor Long say that the only thing on earth he feared was "going stale," guessed that 13 years in one job had begun to wear on him. He at once plunged into the book publishing firm of Ray Long & Richard Smith. They had some successes, more failures. Suddenly one day in 1932 Ray Long walked out of his Manhattan office "a couple of jumps ahead of a nervous breakdown," sailed off for the South Sea Islands. From that point on the Long career became a study...
...year they had opened an office in New York and by 1869 had moved their shop from Fitchburg to Brooklyn and were making patterns for women's clothes as well. The patterns were sold through agents. One of these, John W. Wilder, an aggressive and imaginative hawker, joined the firm with a brilliant idea. He wanted Butterick to make the masses pattern-conscious with a fashion magazine. Result was Metropolitan, founded in 1869, later changed to Delineator. By 1871 the firm was selling 6,000,000 patterns annually. Ten years later aggressive Salesman Wilder reorganized the company with himself...