Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The railway brotherhoods last week entered a third field of finance. For several years now they have operated successfully as commercial bankers. Last February they organized American Home Builders Inc., to finance house construction at low rates. (Here they compete with savings & loan societies.) Last week's creation was...
*Organized through the Industrial Finance Corporation after the plan of Arthur J. Morris, Manhattan lawyer-banker.
Among the exhibits that will probably attract the most interest are original parts from Dickens' "Pickwick Papers," and "Christmas Books" and an inkwell, which he used. There will be two volumes printed by the Kelmscott press, that of William Morris's, which holds the reputation of having produced some of...
Washington lawyers are dubious, do not believe the Supreme Court will reverse itself on the strength of the Morris letter. Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, archfoe of John Barleycorn was scornful, said: "Morris's opinion was only his lone opinion, in a hopeless minority...
THE BAND PLAYS DIXIE-Morris Markey-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Author Markey, the latest recruit to that swelling corps of young Manhattan newsgatherers who write disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage...