Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second star witness was Charles Michael Schwab, benevolent-looking Chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp. He declared that he would like to see every battleship sunk, he never met Mr. Shearer so far as he recalled, regarded his employment as unwise. Said...
...Third star witness was Mr. Schwab's "boy," Eugene Gifford Grace, President of Bethlehem. He told that Shearer had been hired by S. W. Wakeman, vice-president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., without his knowledge or approval. When he heard that Shearer was propagandizing: "I told Wakeman to get rid of him. Wakeman said another payment was due Shearer. I told him to make it immediately...
...Another star witness was Mr. Wakeman. Ke submitted a letter written to him last January by Mr. Shearer, in which Mr. Shearer boasted of having "saved the ship-building industry ... as the result of my activities during the sixty-ninth Congress." In the letter he took credit for the fact that there were then eight 10,000-ton cruisers under construction, and pointed out that as a result of the failure of the Geneva conference a $740,000,000 ship- building program was before Congress. Mr. Wakeman took the blame for Bethlehem's having hired Mr. Shearer, admitted...
...warming up on Orpheum and Proctor circuits she played in the cast of The Girl from Utah in England, then in another play or two, then back to vaudeville, then in the Follies of 1915 and 1916. Ziegfeld, who liked her imitations, let her do one of Marie Odile, star of a Belasco play then current. David Belasco saw her and gave her the leading role next season in Polly with a Past...
...Reid '29, former Harvard track star and captain, took charge of the meeting. Under his direction, the new leaders practiced various Harvard cheers. Reid stated that the men available this year made excellent leaders and that he thought cheers would be well directed...