Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the United Mine Workers demonstration looming over the week end, Governor Earle had asked Bethlehem's President Grace to close down the Cambria Works in the interest of domestic tranquillity. Mr. Grace refused on the ground that "to close the plant would involve the admission on our part that the forces of law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are powerless to protect our men in the exercise of their right to work. We cannot assume the grave responsibility of making such an admission." If the plant had to be closed, said Steelman Grace...
...Governor promptly ordered the Cambria works shut down "until further notice." Hopping mad, President Grace sent a sizzling protest to the Governor, warning that "the responsibility for the great losses which our employes, their families and this company and its stock-holders are bound to suffer . . . will be upon you and the Commonwealth." Smoke continued to belch from the stacks of the Cambria works...
...Girdler [Chairman of Republic Steel] is a heavily armed monomaniac with murderous tendencies, who has gone berserk. Potter [William C. Potter,* chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.] and Grace [President Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel] have turned him loose upon the unarmed steel workers...
...days later, Vanderbilt lost another landmark as courtly little Poet John Crowe Ransom (Grace After Meat), co-author of the famed agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and a pillar of Vanderbilt's English department for 23 years, took a job at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. When his fellow poet and agrarian, Alumnus Allen Tate, wrote an open letter of protest to Chancellor Kirkland, Poet Ransom explained that small, hustling Kenyon had offered him, besides more time for writing, $5,000 a year and a house as against Vanderbilt...
Princeton's graduating class voted Eugene Gifford Grace Jr., son of the Bethlehem Steel tycoon, "Most Likely To Succeed...