Word: solid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Appointed by Governor Bottolfsen to succeed Idaho's Borah (for eleven months) was solid, taciturn 66-year-old John W. Thomas, banker, Republican wheelhorse, U. S. Senator from 1928 through 1932, when New Dealing James P. Pope defeated...
...firm, Taft & Taft, hung out its shingle in Cincinnati. Later enlarged, the firm is now Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, has six partners. Charley dropped out two years ago when he was elected to the City Council. Taking no criminal or marital cases, the Taft firm steadily built up a solid corporate practice locally (Gruen Watch, Globe-Wernicke, Cincinnati Milling Machine, etc.). Its business base was the management of estates and trusts-especially those of Uncle Charles (d. 1929) and Aunt Annie (d. 1931). Largest asset of these: the Times-Star. To Bob and Charley, Uncle Charles left 1,000 shares each...
...masked the city with the odor of "a billion polecats"), of his own petty larcenies and light vices, of the alley Negroes (he calls them coons, Aframericans, blackamoors), of policemen, of livery stables, of trips to Washington with his father, he tells a great deal, most of it as solid as it is entertaining. He writes a beautiful chapter on his father as a businessman, drinker and practical joker, makes him, quietly, a great comic character. Chief cause of the comedy: he "was probably the most incompetent man with his hands ever seen on earth...
...Best example of this style (which he is using on most of his pop tunes) is the theme song with which he opens his broadcasts. Listen especially to tenor saxman Sam Donahue, who is one of the best white men playing. Gene's playing has quieted down into good solid drumming for the band instead of for himself, so that things really swing most of the time...
Having repudiated even Herbert Fleishhacker's lawyer, Anglo California also gave up its last connection with the name of Fleishhacker. Herbert's solid, solemn brother Mortimer, who resigned as president and board chairman last year, last week retired from the bank's directorate. The name of Fleishhacker appeared no longer to be a banking asset...