Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revue" on the stage is an improvement on the screen show, its brightest moments being provided by the radio singer, Grace Hayes and her vocal imitator son and the three Slate Brothers with their remarkable adagio dance...
...most important person to oppose any reduction in the income tax was none less than the Most Reverend William Temple, Archbishop of York. Long regarded as a parlor pink by most of the Conservatives of his flock, His Grace would leave income taxes where they are, apply almost the whole surplus to increasing the dole and relieving unemployment. In all churches of the Archdiocese of York last week appeared posters begging prayers "for the Divine guidance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...Grace's suggestion was received with marked apathy not only by businessmen but by nearly all politicians, anxious to sweeten taxpayers' tempers. Raged Economist Francis W. Hirst in the Times...
...sometimes ruthless. The last time he made news in that capacity was when he appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee last summer, admitted that he had paid no income tax for three years, flayed speculation and generally won the hard hearts of hostile Senators by his charm and grace (TIME, July 10). After dark he was Otto Kahn, patron of arts, bon vivant, first nighter at opera and theatre. As a capitalist he preached the threadbare maxims of success, pointed with pride to the fact that he was advanced in the little bank at Karlsruhe because he licked stamps...
...WIFE-Helen Grace Carlisle- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Novel by the author of Mother's Cry about marriage, adultery, reunion in Manhattan. Just about as dreary as it sounds...