Word: pride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after 22 years with Youngstown Sheet & Tube, left its vice-presidency to become president of Republic Iron & Steel. Under the McCleary administration Republic acquired Sheet & Tube, and in 1929 will more than double its 1928 earnings. McCleary habit: to work 12 hours a day 365 days a year. McCleary pride: the new electrical welding process which Republic acquired in taking over the Sheet & Tube Company. Mr. McCleary becomes president of Republic Steel...
Spade bearded Bishop Cherontie of Constanta beamed with pride, announced that Ileana's candlestick would stand on the Cathedral's high altar, its candles never to be snuffed...
...same rigor was applied in scholarship and discipline. It was Mr. O's pride that Pomfret boys have more than held their own among boys from bigger schools both in studies and athletics. The most unusual mind (Schuyler B. Jackson. 1922) that Princeton has had in years was awakened at Pomfret. Yale's Mallory and Harvard's Buell were Pomfret bred footballers of recent fame. From Pomfret to Harvard went a great stroke oar, George Appleton; for Pomfret, like Kent, is one of the few rowing schools...
...Like an echo from the past came the account by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. retired Assistant Attorney-General, of the prosecution of Prohibition cases. With patent pride she gave the year's figures: 56,786 new cases started, 56,455 finished; 47,100 convictions. 1,477 acquittals; 21,602 jail sentences aggregating 8,663 years; $4,200,052 in fines collected. Mrs. Willebrandt insisted that ''contrary to the general belief, considerable success was obtained" in her prosecution of New York night clubs (TIME. Aug. 13, 1928). Of 98 defendants, 80 pleaded guilty, 15 were convicted on trial...
...hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal on an average day, and one-fifth of the freight handled in New York passes through it. With quiet pride Mr. Bush says of his terminal : "I have built, and it is my creation...