Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt, the Great White Father of Labor, is also President of the U.S. He summoned the disputants to the White House, told them off in language that had the forceful clarity of a long-suffering man boundlessly irked. To Steelmen Purnell, Fairless and Grace and the three chiefs of C.I.O., the President read the riot act in primer words: ". . . In the first place, we all know that the United States is in a state of national emergency. ... It is essential to national safety that we continue the defense production program without delay. . . . Coal for steel plants is a necessity...
...Wardman Park Hotel. Next day Lewis walked through a side door of the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, strode up one flight to 200-B, the suite where Messrs. Fairless, Purnell and Grace awaited him and his aides...
...married the former yet retains "unfinished business" with the latter; but all too rarely do any of the trio manage to rise above the trite monotony of the script. And it is not without pain that we, report that--despite some beautiful scenic backgrounds which are the only saving grace of the film--Miss Dunne can no longer sing...
...Grace Moore and Tenor Charles Kullman flung themselves about in The Love of Three Kings in San Francisco, collided with a whack. Her shoulder dislocated, Miss Moore shortly met a stage death at the hands of Basso Ezio Pinza, who choked her with vigor, suffered deep scratches on his hands and arms...
When Turnblazer first moved into the town of Jellico, Tenn., on the Kentucky border (where Songstress Grace Moore once sang in a church choir), miners were fighting for subsistence wages. Operators, who included subsidiaries of U.S. Steel Corp., Ford, International Harvester, fought to keep wages down, keep Turnblazer's union from trespassing. The shock troops of the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association were "special guards," sheriffs and deputies...