Word: firm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then after just two days of discussion the Foreign Ministers came to a "perfect identity of view," announced that the Axis Powers had agreed to form a firm political and military alliance. Considering the firmness of the Rome-Berlin Axis, a formal military alliance seemed to make no change in Europe's balance of power. But what the Foreign Ministers had announced by implication was that Italy would automatically come to the help of Germany in case of trouble, and vice versa. With the fate of the Free City of Danzig already at issue between Germany and Poland...
...When Czecho-Slovakia was born in 1918, he returned to Zlin to build Bat'a Shoe Co. into one of the world's largest (capacity: 250,000 pairs a day). Seven years ago Thomas Bat'a was killed in his private airplane, but last week his firm came again to the U. S.-it asked bids on an elaborate plant at Belcamp near Baltimore to employ 1,000 shoemakers within a year...
...estate: his eight boys had to sell newspapers. Milton Portis, the eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton, half from, others...
Soon after the five Portis boys formed their firm, they decided to run the company on the basis of all for one, one for all. For 25 years, they have drawn identical salaries. Each took a title for the sake of convention, but each has an equal voice in the management. Today they are as indistinguishable as five hats on a closet shelf. All are stocky, all about five-feet...
...Tall, handsome Charles Simonton McCain, who has headed both the smallest and the biggest U. S. bank, last week resigned his presidency of $577,000,000 United Light & Power Co. to become a director and officer of Dillon, Read & Co., currently the most successful Wall Street underwriting firm. When Charles McCain graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1904, he entered banking in his native Arkansas, soon founded his own bank in McGehee with $1,000 capital which he ear ned in his pocket by day, hid in a sugar bar rel at night. By 1925 he was vice president...