Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under these Federal blandishments, some local antipathy toward the Federal Government may have broken down. Party lines, however, seemed to have held fairly firm. Chortled Democratic Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City: "Now get this picture. I have a case I want to work up. I have only one or two men I can use. It's a big proposition and it will take six months. I can't tap wires; I can't spend money because it will break up the budget. What is there to do? Why, get in touch with Washington...
...treaties and the Covenant of the League of Nations now hardly seem of greater importance than a scrap of paper. Desolation and disappointment increase while the rumor flies that Germany rearms. . . . We bring our thanks and our homage to such a man as Arthur Henderson, a man who stands firm...
Endeavoring to stand firm, "Uncle Arthur" proposed that the do-nothing Con ference of which he is President be protracted without end. Accepting his prize of $41,595 in the broadest spirit, he concluded: "If we contemplate as our ultimate end a League controlling the world's economic life and its armed forces, then we must say frankly that our ultimate ideal is the creation of nothing less than a World Commonwealth...
Typical of the plain-living, courageous line of U. S. missionaries in China were the John C. Stams. Both children of Protestant churchmen, they looked remarkably alike: serious, firm-jawed young people with tortoise-shell glasses. Married 14 months ago, Mrs. Stam had her first child, a girl, by a caesarean operation, last September. Outposters of the interdenomi national China Inland Mission, they taught the way of the Lord in Tsingteh in Southern Anhwei Province, 200 miles from Nanking, which is Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's stronghold of law & order...
...Rabkin is president and owner of International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc. The company was founded in 1895 to make peep shows of girls going to bed, the cook kissing the policeman and little Johnny getting a spanking. One of the firm's early artists was Mary Pickford, hired to pose at $5 per day when the weather was good. Photographs were taken on the roof of the company's building on 14th Street, under the direction of David Wark Griffith, whose salary was $25 per week. Soon the little company, then called American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., split, Biograph...