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...head Carnegie Steel, so Schwab chose Grace to be the star of Bethlehem. Tall, slender, faultlessly clothed, President Grace went to Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., there captained the baseball team, there became acquainted with the long rows of mills that mark Steel Town. After graduating he became a crane operator at $1.80 a day (12 hours), started a rise that culminated (February, 1916) in his election to his present job. Under him, Bethlehem boomed through the War. Followed the depression of 1921?Bethlehem has never been depression-proof?and a remarkable period of rebuilding that ended last spring with...
...Crane operators of both types man-oeuvered their hooks with equal calm and skill, feeling that as long as they were working for different concerns on different jobs they could restrain any evil feelings that might otherwise have arisen. The break came when some of Zimble's non-union men did a job for Shaughnessy. At once there was friction in the air. Labor unions representing all the workers employed at the plant investigated the state of affairs, and incidentally ordered a strike. For the past week no work has gone on in consequence, and with the continuance...
...pound class: J. J. Mellen '33, Gordon Crane '33, A. P. Carlisle '33, D. E. Wood 3L, J. W. Bussey 2L, F. W. Young...
...beyond that he must depend for success on the chance that he could kindle in his discerners some intuitive appreciation of what to them would be new, wholly foreign beauties. Socially he was well sponsored, by the China Institute in America, more particularly by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Charles R. Crane, John Dewey, Otto Hermann Kahn. Esthetically he represented a tradition which countless Emperors had applauded. But he had his worries...
...shifting scenes and the great range of situations gives an advantage, that the legitimate stage cannot hope to rival. Moreover, a judicious use of the camera makes it easily possible to look at the various scenes from a great variety of interesting angles without the discomfort of having to crane one's neck beyond the sides of the corpulent lady that always sits in the next...