Word: graces
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Vichy instructed Hanoï to resist. Border incidents broke out, and by last week they had become pretty intense. There were small bombings and counter-bombings. The fighting was by no means a war, but it was an episode which somehow epitomized the tragic complications of the year of grace 1940. A no-account strip of precipitous jungle on the Mekong River had become a matter of world politics involving not only Thailand and France, but the Axis and Britain-and even the U. S., which may some day have to defend the Philippines...
...notable achievement of the Met's Manager Edward Johnson has been to hire lookers as well as singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore, Hilda Burke, Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber (a West Virginia debutante of this month), U. S. Contraltos Risë Stevens and Gladys Swarthout...
...chewing Ernest Weir, whose modern mills put competition back into the steel business. In 1940 he yielded his news value to others. Mr. Weir is a salesman, and in 1940's market all the salesmen went fishing. It was a productionman's show. Shrewd Old Dealer Eugene Grace opened his mouth just wide enough to lap up the cream of the business. He also took the lead in cooperating with the New Deal's exhortations to expand: $100,000,000 worth, half of which was Government money. On the rest, he got a favorable amortization deal from...
...Present were enough tycoons to float a national economy. Men like General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, U. S. Steel's Irving Olds and Ben Fairless, Standard Oil's William Farish, Du Font's Lammot du Pont, Swift's John Holmes, Bethlehem's Eugene Grace, General Electric's Philip Reed, Goodyear's Paul Litchfield were just white ties in a white-tied sea. It was probably the greatest galaxy of industrial power and talent ever gathered in one room...
Aboard the Southern Cross, yacht of Swedish Tycoon Axel L. Wenner-Gren, the Governor of the Bahamas and his lady this week set sail from Nassau to Miami. Reason: Her Grace needed an operation to relieve an apical infection of a non-vital molar...