Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bethlehem Steel's meetings have never been routine since shareholders learned that President Eugene Grace once received a $1,600,000-bonus for one year's work. Bethlehem's bonus plan has since been modified, and today Mr. Grace is paid a straight salary of $180,000 per year. But old Chairman Charles Michael Schwab now gets his $250,000, good years or bad, and when the Bethlehem stockholders met in Newark, N. J. last week, the aging founder, present but not presiding, bore the brunt of the complaints. Loyally defending his chief from the chair, President...
Most of the best citizens had left town. A cavalcade of shays and victorias, phaetons and buggies and traps was headed out along the dusty road to the University to see the graduation exercises. Along the sides of the road, sitting their underbred nags with easy grace, rode the rag-tag and bob-tail of Lincoln. Indian fighters, many of them had been, and some still were. They eyed the newly-victoria'd business aristocrats with scorn, and spat tobacco-chaws with a nonchalant lack...
...Cown ¶George V by the Grace of God King, Emperor of India and Defender of the Faith looks almost exactly like the late Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, and has never forgiven Bolsheviks for butchering his first cousin. Last week, as Lord Privy Seal Anthony Eden arrived in Moscow to confer with Joseph Stalin (see p. 19), King George again found means to show his strong feelings. Unimpressed by the fact that Bolshevik leaders were drinking his health at Moscow in champagne, an all-time high for hypocrisy, George V called to Buckingham Palace...
...Louis Wiley power was conjoined with goodness, masterfulness of intellect with kindliness of heart. This man had it within him not only to do with all his might whatever his hands found to do, but he was wont to perform his daily labors with the same grace and joyousness as a mother serves her beloved child. It was because of his rare gifts and disposition that Louis Wiley was able to overcome handicaps. . . . With such a nature, it was inevitable that he should regard the Press as a social agency and not as a personal vehicle...
...limelight, end his days plodding away at his secret historical writing. Furthermore, he was a convinced Republican and thought Emperors a bad thing for Rome. Because his only choice, however, was between the throne and an ignominious death, he sat down in the imperial seat with what grace he could muster. No fool, he soon saw his chance to bring Rome back to a state of grace in which she would once more be ready for Republican rule. He set himself to the task with pertinacious common sense, worked long hours to bring Roman order out of imperial chaos...