Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thesis is part and parcel of the other; if a firm and longsighted tradition of building students into graduate workers, graduate workers into scientists, was followed through its broader cultural implications, the teaching morals and the tutorial function in the Physics Department would become an inspiration instead of a vulgar failure...
Your note following my letter in TIME of May 13 on your and Senator Nye's thesis that munitions-makers cause wars asks me to consider that the French firm of Schneider-Crcusot secretly helped to finance Adolf Hitler and then propagandized at home for increased armament to defend La Patric. Don't you think that you are indulging in that fallacy in argumentation known as ignoration of the clench? You maintain-at least Senator Nye does (perhaps you only imply)-that munitions-makers cause wars: you prove only that they sell munitions...
...cinemactor. Said he: "My wife and I would be together now if it were not for Father. Father wanted the marriage annulled but I said: 'Nuts, I won't give you that pleasure.'. . . My wife was offered half a million dollars by a Hollywood firm to make two pictures. Out of loyalty to me she rejected the offer. When I arrive she may reconsider the offer. I may even be offered a small part. I am willing to play the second part. That would be another shock for the family...
...work, the average investor has grown skeptical. Furthermore, New Deal legislation, like the requirement that all private bankers choose between their securities and their deposit business, has severed many a traditional corporate connection. Securities affiliates have been divorced from the big commercial banks and their staffs, migrating to private firms, carried clients with them. No one knows yet what firm will eventually occupy the province of the House of Morgan, now simply a commercial bank...
...rival at No. 23 Wall, Kuhn, Loeb elected to stay in the securities trade, abandoning its deposits. Traditionally railroad bankers, Kuhn, Loeb has lately widened its industrial friendships, particularly in the steel industry. Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube have long been clients, and last year the firm assisted President Tom Mercer Girdler with his Republic Steel merger plans. Last week Kuhn, Loeb was preparing to market $50,000,000 of bonds for Ernest Tener Weir's National Steel-a big industrial issue even in Kuhn, Loeb's long records...