Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duchess of Leinster, onetime chorus girl, wife of the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ireland, was taken from a London flat to a hospital, suffering from asphyxiation, following a quarrel with one Stanley Williams, once a cook, with whom she had been living. Since 1923 His Grace has been separated from Her Grace...
Last week a train drew into Youngstown. Ohio, bearing upon it two Lords of Bethlehem, come to cry to the citizens of Youngstown, to the shareholders of Youngstown Sheet & Tube. "Let there be merger!" One of the pair was President Eugene Gifford Grace who had conducted all negotiations with Youngstown's Founder-Chairman James A. Campbell. The other was joke-loving, big-chested, big-hearted Chairman Charles M. Schwab, than whom only Henry Ford is a more famed industrialist. Although Youngstown's Campbell publicly advocated the deal, Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland has furnished fierce opposition (TIME. March...
...gift. My policy is to take a plant and make it grow." Then, in a torrent of emotion, Orator Schwab told of his long friendship with Mr. Campbell, ended up with a plea: ''Jim Campbell, right or wrong, follow him." To Chairman Schwab, President Grace is the perfect complement. Cool, logical, incisive. Mr. Grace quoted figures to show Bethlehem spends money on its plants, increases its payrolls. ''The strength of Bethlehem."' he said, "lies in the strength of local institutions. We create local institutions. We do not centralize. We are going to cooperate for bigger...
Returning from Cleveland, Mr. Eaton again spoke against the "calamity'' and announced he had 412,571 shares whereas 395,201 could block the deal. To this Mr. Grace answered: "That statement is not at all in keeping with authoritative information I have received. ..." Just as dubious of Mr. Eaton's victory was Chairman Campbell, saying: "It is absolutely foolish for anyone to make claims. . The proxies already in our hands leave no doubt in my mind that the merger will be approved...
...Surely it is neither kind nor dignified to ridicule an occupation chosen seriously and fraught with all the ardent idealism of youth. The chick that will emerge from the academic egg this June does not deserve a harsh rebuff. What if a few pieces of shell do grace its diminutive tail feathers! Think of the Big Bear and the Medium-sized Bear and all the little Bears that amble so quaintly through the nursery days! Happy childhood will seem so far away out in the great world that it seems a shame to tear this last tattered page from Mother...