Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus spake Henri Torres, attorney for 72-year-old Amedee Princess de Broglie last week, defending her against efforts by her nephews to block her marriage with dissolute, notorious, 41-year-old Prince Luis Fernando de Bourbon of Spain. One of the complainant nephews is his grace the Due de Brissac. The court, after mature reflection, held that "in French law the right to bring such suit as this appertains only to ancestral relatives, not to descendants...
Another employe bonus was revealed last week: that of Eugene Gilford Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel Corp. Put on the witness stand in the famed, inter minable Eaton-Youngstown suit (TIME, March 24 et seq.), Mr. Grace declared that his salary was $12,000 per year, but that he also received a bonus figured "at a factor of 1½" Mr. Grace's bonus...
...Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator aboard Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between Roosevelt Field and Harbor Grace, N. F. in December 1927. The plane was to have attempted a flight to Denmark. Frank Goldsborough qualified for his pilot's license last November, established a junior record for transcontinental flight two months ago (TIME...
...allegorical Candle Follows His Nose, dropped it, set to work on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene. In November 1929, he shelved that, went into seclusion at his home eight miles from Stamford, Conn, for a third start. Last week he emerged, announced that "by the grace of God" he had finished libretto and score for Peter Ibbetson, his second grand opera; that he would not take a vacation until the orchestration was done?a task requiring three more months at least...
...attempts to show that the Youngstown-Bethlehem merger gave Youngstown stockholders no fair deal and that in urging it Mr. Campbell had been strongly influenced by pro-Bethlehem interests. Eaton attorneys emphasized the fact that Henry G. Dalton, who had sat in with Mr. Campbell in meetings with Mr. Grace, was a director of Bethlehem as well as of Youngstown. It was also brought out that Pickands, Mather & Co., ore firm of which Mr. Dalton is a partner and which was active in the purchase of Youngstown stock proxies voted in favor of the Bethlehem merger, had received from Bethlehem...