Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prefers to dominate Russia from his unobtrusive post of Secretary of the Communist Party-the only political group permitted to exist. Even at party gatherings Secretary Stalin habitually sits in watchful silence on the back row of a crowded speakers' platform. Therefore when the man whose name means "Steel" suddenly chose to speak, last week, before the Central Committee and the Central Control Committee of the Communist Party, his few words were treasured up as pregnant oracles...
...large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged to the late steel tycoon, Elbert Henry Gary. The other 38 paintings raised the total price for the evening's auctioning to $1,154,650, the record* for a single sale; most of the paintings brought a little less than they were worth...
Elected. Elmer T. McCleary, expert steelmaking vice president of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.; to be president of the Republic Iron & Steel Co.; to succeed Thomas J. Bray, resigned...
Died. George W. Niedringhaus, 63, pioneer steelman, president of the National Enameling & Stamping Co. of Granite City, Ill., the town built around his steel industries; suddenly, of heart disease, in Granite City...
August Heckscher, 79½, zinc, steel and real estate potentate, philanthropist, is apt to die any minute now, thought Frieda Hempel, 42¾, retired soprano. So she filed application with the Manhattan Supreme Court for an order to have Mr. Heckscher testify immediately concerning his alleged agreement to pay her $48,000 a year for the rest of her life. She claims that she gave up an income of $200,000 a year on the concert stage to help Mr. Heckscher in his philanthropic work...