Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Attorney John Monaghan who directed the Special Grand Jury's investigation. During the eleven weeks before Election Day he arrested more than 40 policemen and racketeers...
...passive for a while, who scorned the idea that municipal extortionists could exist among the police or elsewhere. But at length he ordered a wholesale transfer of the police force. He compared the reports of new and old incumbents of the precincts. On the basis of later Grand Jury reports he suspended from office almost one half of the executive police officers-three out of five inspectors, 18 out of 43 captains. These men had been found "unfit to hold any position in the municipal government." Their bank accounts revealed "unexplained wealth" amounting...
...Judge Edwin O. Lewis who started the investigation, who was its consistent supporter. He referred to the Grand Jury reports as "an amazingly sordid recital...
Crackers. Voracious, United Biscuit Co. last year created a $11,500,000 subsidiary, to absorb small middle-western cracker companies, called it United Biscuit Co. of America. Accretions last week: Ontario Biscuit Co. (two plants in Buffalo, one in Pittsburgh); Hekman Biscuit Co. (Grand Rapids); Quality Biscuit Co. (Milwaukee...
Lewis Carroll, Bret Harte, and even Tennyson flirted with him for his musical collaboration; but he was faithful to his intention of doing something in the grand manner. The result was an unsuccessful opera, after which Sullivan returned to his Gilbert. The librettist was only too eager for reconciliation, because he too had been making false pretenses to the greater heights of legitimate stage...