Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent at Reedsville. Fifty houses are occupied and ten of a projected 140 more are being built. Though Congress ungraciously squelched Mrs. Roosevelt's plan for a postoffice-equipment factory there (TIME, March 12), a government-built vacuum cleaner assembly plant, which will be leased to a private firm, is within three months of completion...
Courtly little George Eumorfopoulos is actually a British subject, born in Liverpool 71 years ago. Until his retirement last August he was vice president of a firm established in London since 1819: Ralli Brothers. Ltd.. private bankers and importers of rape, rice, cotton, hemp from India. The Rallis were of Greek origin, too. Importer Eumorfopoulos lives in London in a handsome house on the Chelsea Embankment, well known to Orientalists all over the world...
With an abundance of verbal wisteria, April works its spell upon them all. The firm hand on the teapot relaxes. As the moon swings to the full, Miss Harding's luscious speeches come to ripe fruit. Just as the air is about to be like wine tonight, the castle menage, an enchanting crew of Italian peasants, bustle on the scene. It is a real pleasure to watch them become completely disrupted over the performance of a sinister English rite-the hot bath. Moments like this are heightened by handsome sets and adroit low-key photography. But alas, the story creaks...
...heavily tapestried, rococo boardroom of the 34-story New York Life Insurance Building in Manhattan, Director Alfred Emanuel Smith leaned forward in his chair one day last week and said in a firm clear voice: "I move to adopt the committee's report nominating Mr. Hoover." With a single chorus of "Ayes" all gentlemen present thereupon voted to elect Herbert Clark Hoover a director of New York Life, succeeding the late John E. Andrus (TIME, Jan. 7). From Chicago where he was transacting private business on one of his infrequent trips east from Palo Alto, Director Hoover telegraphed...
...buried"-as farcical a misstatement as ever appeared in print. It cannot be denied that a few of those present had slightly too much regard for Mr. Hearst's altruism, and were rudely shocked when he was accused of ulterior motives. But the overwhelming majority came and went in firm opposition to his principles and methods. Talks by Hearst-writers Richard Washburn Child and Bainbridge Colby and indirect offers to become wavers of the Hearst banner did surprisingly little to alter their opinion. Drop in the bucket though it may have been, the money which rolled from the Hearstian coffers...