Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have carefully investigated and find no actual existence of such an organization, registered as an organization, as a firm, partnership, person or persons doing business under an assumed name by and in accordance with the statutes of the State. . . . We are forced to conclude that the named confederation on whose behalf you communicate with our Chief of Police is a legal nonentity...
...train which brought back the bickering mourners from the funeral of Senator Joseph T. Robinson (TIME, July 26) and set foot in a scene of the greatest political confusion which Washington had witnessed in many years. At the Capitol a group of resolute Democrats stood entrenched with the firm resolve that the Supreme Court Bill should not pass. At the White House, mile and a half away, sat a grim President not only determined that it should pass but still expecting that it would. From the moment of his arrival, white-haired Jack Garner took charge of the situation...
...them said: "Leland Groezinger and Gerald S. Levin, as joint tenants, bid $411,150." Cameras clicked as Mr. Levin handed Mr. Berven, as a down payment, a crumpled cashier's check for $43,000. Thus transferred lock, stock & barrel to the bidders' law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, acting for a committee of bondholders, was the most famed little football college on the West Coast (TIME...
Died-James P. Sullivan, 53, of the Philadelphia and New York firm of Gilbert & Sullivan, insurance counselors; in Chicago. He had made himself roundly disliked by insurance men for his written and spoken criticism of their methods (TIME...
...first and greatest specialists in the field of obsolete securities, the over-the-counter firm of R. M. Smythe, Inc. gradually gained comfortable renown. President Smythe lined his office with bookcases full of precious old directories, bound volumes of The Commercial & Financial Chronicle and railroad almanacs from 1862 on. The more he studied old security issues the more convinced he became that owners of many forgotten bonds held title to vast if watery wealth. And because out of Sleuth Smythe's capacious hat gratifying miracles sometimes popped, trustees and executors got in the habit of laying the contents...