Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word on "dolts-in-the-mountains." Your paragraph (TIME, Sept. 5) was excellent. (Mr. Miller [TIME, Oct. 10] to the contrary.) I am a mountaineer, also a life pupil in Luther Burbank's "University of Nature"; know the Grand Canyon, too. Have had opportunity to observe thousands of people as They drank in, individually, some of Nature's great spectacles...
Action. The District of Columbia Grand Jury (23 members) foregathered. Mr. Sinclair's friend, Mr. Day, who looks "like a well-groomed football tackle," was asked to explain his connection with the Burns men. He refused to answer, on the paradoxical but wholly legal ground that in explaining he might incriminate himself. He was arrested and placed under a $25,000 bail...
...just the week for a meeting of the National Crime Commission in Washington, D. C. What looked very much like a grand scale attempt at jury-wangling was fresh on the docket, in the devious history of a successful and therefore widely admired oilman and a onetime Cabinet member (see CORRUPTION...
...city crime commissions in the U. S. Twenty-six such bodies sent delegates to the gathering last week. Largely through the efforts of the National Commission 42 states made 587 criminal code amendments. Some of these amendments the commission found foolish?such as Missouri's making dog-stealing grand larceny* and Idaho's law against buying or selling chickens after dark with out notifying a sheriff. But nine-tenths of the changes were declared "seriously and carefully considered"?anti-pistol laws in Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island;? Baumes-type laws in Vermont, Minnesota, Missouri, Massachusetts and Iowa...
...Turkey prescribes that each new Grand National Assembly shall elect from among the assembled deputies a President of the Republic. The life of an Assembly is for four years and the term of the presidential office is ipso facto for the same period. There is no opposition...