Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate conflict which has given the thrill of a lifetime to the famed old Ohio town of Youngstown, round which muddy rivers pass, three figures are preeminent. Perhaps the truest steelman of them all is Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem. Much as the late great Carnegie picked Charles M. Schwab to 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...
Second of the figures is James A. Campbell of Youngstown, Ohio, an older hand in the industry than Bethlehem's Grace. In 1900 Mr. Campbell organized Youngstown Sheet & Tube, now fourth largest unit. A ruddy-faced man of 75, indulging in few extravagances beyond bright suits and tipping his barber 25¢, he last winter resigned as president of Youngstown to become chairman. Until last week his word was sufficient to sway the company, was able to block a merger with Bethlehem two years ago. Last week he at first refused to comment on the proposed merger, but finally declared...
...CONCERTO IN D by Polish Violinist Bronislaw Huberman and the Berlin State Orchestra under Wilhelm Steinberg (Columbia, $8)-Tchaikovsky wrote this Concerto shortly after his miserable marriage, at a time of great depression; but its mood is surprisingly light and Violinist Huberman, of European fame, plays with exceeding grace over a subdued orchestra...
...Chicago, Helen Grace Johnson swore that her husband, a miser, bought her almost no food, made her wear magnifying glasses when eating...
Oscar Shaw suavely appears as an aviator who wins a transcontinental air race and the hand of a delectable blonde heroine with an excellent voice (Grace Brinkley). The inveterate Tin Pan Alley trio of De Sylva, Brown & Henderson contribute one song ("Thank Your Father") which is likely to be favored. Joseph Urban has designed several salons which are totally unlike those at any airport in the country...