Word: greys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...similar stories of his efforts to get at the facts of utility investment, only to be blocked by Secretary Bonner who called him "too meticu-lous." He openly charged Secretary Bonner with being more in sympathy with the power companies than with the law. Secretary Bonner, slender, gaunt-faced, grey-haired, denied all, insisted he was executing the water power act "with success." He told the Committee that his Commission had 418 license applications under consideration. He submitted a list of 19 power companies with $27,000,000 in their capital accounts which the Commission questioned. He grew abusive toward...
Married. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, twice-divorced second Duke of Westminster, most spectacular of England's richest peers; and Loelia Ponsonby, daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, keeper of the Privy Purse; in London. To his bride the Duke gave the famed Porter-Rhodes diamond, to his tenants, remission of arrears, one week's rent...
...club's prize mounted sailfish caught by Author Zane Grey in 1918, weighed...
...debate as "The Tall Cedar of Lebanon." His features have an Indian regularity, almost handsome. His expression is one of serene superiority. His soft snow-white hair stands out in the shadowy Senate chamber like a white plume. When he walks he strides. His suits are soft and grey, easy-fitting. While a Harvard post-graduate student (1900), he married short, slender Alfreda Mitchell of New London, Conn., who has borne him seven large sons-Woodbridge (28), Hiram, Alfred, Charles, Brewster, Mitchell, Jonathan (16). He likes to be photographed with them in a descending row. In Washington he lives...
...Cathedral of Chartres, delicate, lacelike, had been built in Hartford, Conn., it would probably by this time be a chipped and crumbling mass. Reason: U. S. climate is inimical to fine sculptural stonework. Last week Sculptor George Grey Barnard had much to say about the decay of the medieval sculptures in the famed Cloisters established by himself in upper Manhattan and later purchased by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Most of this outdoor statuary has disintegrated more in its 20 years in the U. S. than in the preceding six centuries in Europe. Even the indoor...