Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the writer was manager of a credit investigating firm whose reporters oftentimes, particularly on rainy days and after bad nights, would investigate their cases in the lobby of some convenient hotel where their vivid imaginations would have free play...
...family is like that. We are given freedom to live, with no interference from anyone," the Premier's eldest son, Vittorio, 21, explained in San Francisco last week. There his partner, Hal Roach, in the new Roach and Mussolini cinema producing firm R.A.M. (TIME, Oct. 4), was sued last week for $30,000 by Dr. Renato Senise, the Italian who originally thought up the idea and brought Roach to Rome. In Hollywood, Messrs. Roach and Mussolini had been more & more embarrassed as fewer & fewer people came to their parties and the "20-day" instruction period young Mussolini...
...meanwhile a poll of 57,599 St. Louis cinemagoers, completed last week, indicated that at least the citizens of the nation's seventh city still like "duals," by the overwhelming count of 7 to 3. The questionnaire's sponsors, Fanchon & Marco, the potent firm which controls 31 St. Louis theatres, polled their audiences ten days. Other preferences of this quintessentially American city: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple. Only 1,609 St. Louis fans admitted that they liked gangster films...
...Photo-Facts Publisher Fawcett offers little advice, much fact illustrated in encyclopedia fashion. "Jumping at conclusions," says Mr. Fawcett's "pocketbook of knowledge," "is all right if you have a solid base from which to jump. . . . Photo-Facts supplies a good firm groundwork of useful information from which to 'jump' accurately." Photo-Facts considered useful such stories as "White Man Westward" (Lewis & Clark), "Termite Menace," "Poe's Great Balloon Hoax," "Football From Pagan Rites." Added fillip was its "Newsstand University" section in which Dale Carnegie again bobbed up, this time with "Putting Yourself Across": typical Carnegie...
...When they reached Manhattan they had precisely 35?. This time, however, he knew the ropes and all was clear sailing. Working on the side, he finished Columbia second in his class and editor of its Law Review in 1925, easily landed a job with the crack Wall Street law firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood. Planning to return to Yakima in two years, he set to work learning the fascinating intricacies of Wall Street finance and law, meanwhile teaching at Columbia on the side...