Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution to inquire into the circumstances and evidence connected with the indictment of Senator Wheeler by a Federal Grand Jury at Great Falls, Mont...
Said the Governor: "Let me advise you. I remember in the grand days of my friend Roosevelt, of glorious memory, one Francis J. Heney who was capable of investigating anything and who never investigated in vain. You should employ this Heney...
...Under a procedure of this kind, the constitutional guarantees against unwarranted search and seizure break down, the prohibition against what amounts to a Government charge of criminal action without the formal presentment of a Grand Jury is evaded, the rules of evidence which have been adopted for the protection of the innocent are ignored, the department becomes the victim of vague unformulated and indefinite charges, and instead of a Government of law we have a Government of lawlessness. . . . It is time that we return to a Government under and in accordance with the usual forms...
Hugo Stinnes, 54 years of age, was an emperor of finance, a tsar of industry, a king of business. His minions were princes and grand-dukes, his serving men were lords. His interests were as far-flung as the seven seas. His business was no one thing in particular, but everything in general. He dealt in trusts of super-trusts or trusts of trusts of trusts. It has been said that "when you were in Germany the trains and ships on which you travelled, the hotels you lived at, the shops you bought from, the newspapers you read, the banks...
Ruin caught up last week with the Russian artists, who are exhibiting at the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan (TIME, March 3). Their hope had been to raise $100,000 for the needy artists of Russia. They have, instead, run up debts to the amount of $30,000. They have also antagonized the Soviet Government and failed in certain obligations...