Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meantime, forestalling Senate action, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spurred a Grand Jury investigation of Mississippi's postmasters, 75 of whom were summoned last week to Biloxi to be scrutinized. As everyone knows, Mississippi's Negro Republicans, headed by National Committeeman Perry W. Howard, control their fair share of the South's 25,000 Federal jobs, which aggregate $35,000,000 per annum in salaries. Indictments began, arrests followed for "purchase and sale of public offices...
...Grand National Assembly at Angora (new Turkish Capital) rushed through a law whereby infants born in Turkey after Jan. 1, 1929 to foreign parents will be considered Turkish subjects. Probably never before has an Asiatic state dared to enact a law so distasteful to Occidental Motherhood...
...Great Intellectual, the boy that Kid Shakespeare knocked for a row of midnight oilcans, will exchange bopps on the beak with the New Zealand Menace, the Plumber's Son, the Horseshoe Carpenter. They will attempt to put the snooze on each other, while the Grand Vizier of the Golden Gate takes in slightly more or slightly less than one million smackers...
Elected. Murray Hulbert, Manhattan politician, onetime (1915-19) U. S. Representative, to be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Ben A. Ruffin, of Richmond, Va., to be president of Lions International...
...Significance. Such is the array of Pirandello's characters-the old clinging foolishly to the dead Bourbon issue, the young fasci passionately avowing an unborn issue, and the middle aged fattening themselves on a fast demoding regime of ruthlessness-that one finishes his grand-scale novel with as great a mental confusion as existed in the Sicily in the 'gos. One cannot wonder at the half dozen protagonists that go mad in the course of 764 pages. Not even the main characters have all been mentioned here, to say nothing of the intricate assortment of servants, lovers, cousins...