Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked up within the firm. His chief interest used to be securities, as was that of the two Drexel partners. With the House of Morgan's potent industrial connections, which will certainly not be impaired by the division, Morgan Stanley will undoubtedly take its place as one of the foremost underwriting firms...
Cliff Buyers. Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. owns a railroad, lumber tracts, coal mines, chemical works, charcoal plants. It has a large fleet of Great Lakes freighters. Normally it is also a producer of pig iron. But first & foremost Cleveland-Cliffs is a miner of iron ores. Its ore reserves in Minnesota rank second only to those of U. S. Steel Corp. And for that if no other reason Cleveland-Cliffs is a highly desirable property in any steelman's eyes. Whenever steel mergers are rumored, its name is sure...
...hope of re-establishing its prestige as the foremost prizefight promoting concern in the U. S., what Madison Square Garden Corp. arranged last month was a fight between Jack Doyle and Jacob ("Buddy") Baer Jr. Doyle is a handsome young Irishman who, since arriving in the U. S. last February, has distinguished himself by failing to get a job in Hollywood on the strength of his appearance, by marrying a minor cinemactress named Judith Allen, and by defeating three hopelessly obscure heavyweight fighters. Buddy Baer is the 238-lb., 6-ft., 6-in., 20-year-old brother of one-time...
...power," he tartly observed, "but this has been said wrongly, I feel sure. I have confidence in you. But it is necessary that you merit this confidence! You are representatives of the State and representatives of the departments, but I want you to remember that you are first and foremost representatives of the State. You ought to transmit to the State all information that may be useful to it. You do not do this enough! There has been a certain laxness incompatible with present exigencies. It is the fate of the regime and the life of the country that...
...foremost U. S. embodiment of sex appeal, Jean Harlow's chief qualifications are her hair and her good humor. Her hair brought her to the attention of Howard Hughes in 1929 and thus launched a career which has done more than any other one thing to keep beauty parlors busy through Depression. Her humor, overlooked by Hughes, was recognized by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to whom he sold her contract for $60,000. Since Theda Bara retired, sex appeal on the U. S. screen has been a quality largely identified with comedy. Beginning with Red Headed Woman and continuing with...