Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Cutler, member of the law firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald & Farley, Boston, has published in his recent report as secretary of the Harvard Law School class of 1922 a compilation of the net professional earnings of the members of his class approximately ten years after their graduation. His figures show that the average earnings of the men who reported were...
...William May Wright. In 1924 she began a series of concerts chiefly distinguished by her Poiret gowns. Meantime she was becoming famed for large, jolly parties to which socialites and celebrities went dressed as circus performers, animals, ballet dancers, Spaniards, infants. When Depression smashed her husband's brokerage firm, Mrs. Wright turned her talents and reputation to moneymaking. Now fortyish and fervent, she directs a Monday afternoon radio variety hour, smokes large cigars, boasts of her collection of autographs ranging from that of "Johnnie" Pershing ("the General, you know") to those of "Cantor and the Divine Sarah...
...good thing out of orders turned back to the Swedish Crown by meticulous relatives after the demise of Swedish knights. Causing these golden gauds to be melted up, the Chancellor, according to Danish reporters, kept the gold himself, converted it into cash, and bought stock in a highly speculative firm engaged in the manufacture of Swedish skin food, lipsticks and eyebrow pencils...
...pale, haggard man mumbled the words to himself as he slumped lower in his chair in a fourth-floor apartment of the swank colonnaded Taj Mahal Hotel in Bombay one day last week. India manager of the great London grain firm of Strauss & Co., he had just been ordered to close his office, stop all payments at once. Presently a messenger arrived with a cablegram. It was from his wife in England. "Try not to worry. Good luck and love." Slowly the man dragged himself across the room to the window. . . . Later that day when they had removed his battered...
...fight in the face of the bitter and contemptuous accusations of disloyalty and cowardice heaped upon them by the public and friends alike. If war comes again, there will be a greater number of resisters than in 1917. But what influence will they have? How many will stand firm in the face of the obloquy they are almost certain to have to endure? The answer depends upon a hundred variables. But the experience of 1917 throws some light on the hypothetical situation, and one of the main contributions of "Taps" lies in its vivid picture of the frenzied, gullible...