Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, I regret to say, of Strube's Little Man [see cut].* I see a small, kindly, bewildered, modest, obstinate, and very lovable little person. . . . Upon this first impression a more noble presentation imposes itself, and the contours of Strube's Little Man expand and strengthen into the firm, fine features of Mr. Stanley Baldwin. In some such outward semblance do I visualize the solidity, the good humor, the honesty, the inconsequence, and the indolence of our race...
...borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting a job at London's Covent Garden. Presently she married a Briton named Morris Savage, sub-manager of the Imperial Bank, who was later ordered out to his firm's office in Persia. In her three years in Teheran Mrs. Savage lived in a palace, sang at social functions. The Shah, she says, told her: "Madame, you sing like a bulbul." Under the impression that the Shah was referring to the Persian nightingale, Mme Savage naturally felt flattered...
Amid the corrupt peasant-born super-bandits who ruled various parts of China as "war lords" ten years ago, Marshal Wu Pei-fu was the one old-fashioned Confucian scholar. A sad-eyed, firm-jawed little man with shaved skull and bedraggled mustache, Wu is supposed to be a descendant of one of Confucius' favorite pupils. At ten he could recite from the Chinese classics interminably and with feeling. His own poetry shows a gift for direct metaphor unusual in an Oriental. He had, moreover, a competent grasp of military strategy; he was incorruptible, brave and patriotic; his followers...
...business opportunities, went to work as a bond salesman and bookkeeper's apprentice at Lee, Higginson & Co. Later Salesman Field opened an investment business of his own and still later joined forces with two young investment bankers named Charles F. Glore and Pierce C. Ward. By 1926 the firm of Marshall Field, Glore, Ward & Co. had become Field, Glore & Co. and Marshall Field had deserted Chicago for New York to plunge into a bewildering array of social activities...
Died. Mrs. Rosalie Rayner Watson, 36, wife and collaborator of famed Child Psychologist John Broadus Watson, founder of Behaviorism and vice president of J. Walter Thompson Co.. Manhattan ad-firm; after brief illness; in Norwalk, Conn...