Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...their routine doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors to her, closed it again, listened for two hours while she used all her legal and oratorical...
...first business day of 1931, the law firms of Miller, Otis & Farr and Hornblower, Miller & Garrison will be open for business as the law firm of Hornblower, Miller, Miller & Boston. Senior partner of the new firm will be Nathan L. Miller, of Miller, Otis & Farr. Onetime (1921-23) Governor of New York, Mr. Miller has served in many public offices, now is general counsel for U. S. Steel Corp., of which he is a director and member of the finance committee. His firm's clients include Continental Can, Crucible Steel, estate of Nicholas Brady. The other Mr. Miller...
...Constellation was published in Manhattan on July 4, 1867 by one George Roberts. Other curios: one of the earliest Socialist journals (1849), printed on dark red paper; an Eskimo newspaper; a copy of the Cologne Volks-zeitung (1889) which presented a brief story of the 100th anniversary of the firm of Solomon Oppenheimer, printed in letters of gold...
...Morgan has, indeed, long been a firm friend of Britain, and never was the staunchness of his friendship better shown than when British reputation was put to a test in the early months of the World War and was being besmirched by those in his own country whose origin and interests made them naturally zealous to damage it. Credit meant much in those days, but the help to Britain of the House of Morgan was unwavering and invaluable...
Greenwich, Conn, home, or in his Pasadena colonial house, or aboard his yachts Zatna and Sialia. Chicagoans remember when he became a partner in D. A. Tyng & Co., Chicago over-the-counter house. They also remember how that firm ended in a flurry of indictments. Promoter Andrews came out of that crash unscathed. He went to Manhattan, prospered in stocks and buildings; went to Los Angeles, prospered in stocks, hotels, penny slot-machines. So greatly did he prosper that he could play the market in company with that once great bull William Crapo Durant. He became and still...