Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This hearing was on charges made by seven rebel members of the Orleans Parish Grand Jury against the probity of District Attorney Charles A. Byrne. Mr. Byrne has supposedly been aiding the jury in a probe of the tangled corruption of Parish affairs throughout the State. Meantime pressure was brought-apparently by Earl Long-on Byrne to resign. Said Byrne: "There is no power or influence that can make me resign." Eighteen hours later he resigned, giving the familiar Louisiana excuse of "ill health...
...Orleans campaign for the Governorship with the reassuring statement that his "hands were clean." But at this point the Federal Government showed interest in why the tax-racket hearings had been stopped. One of Attorney General Frank Murphy's "smart boys," Harold Rosenwald, announced that the Federal Grand Jury would immediately start hearings. Earl Kemp Long kept mum. But he and all Louisiana were aware that only Earl's boss, Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, still remained untouched by the tidal wave that in four months has washed up nearly every major figure...
That the Justice Department was seeking to uncover a passport factory allegedly operated by and for Communists was indicated at week's end by the activity of Federal agents, who continued issuing subpoenas to Communist leaders and their friends to appear before the Grand Jury. More big names was the FBI promise...
...first important official statement since Adolf Hitler's "final peace offer" on Oct. 6. It was made before the Nazi Party Veterans' League in Danzig by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. After recapitulating the diplomatic bickerings over Poland, Herr Ribbentrop boarded a verbal airplane and made a grand tour...
...Slovak stooge President must frequently dance attendance in Berlin upon his master Adolf Hitler who last week gave Dr. Tiso the Grand Cross of the German Eagle and whose Nazi regime the Pope sternly denounced. Moreover, Priest Tiso as President is directly represented in Moscow by his own cousin, Urano Tiso, Slovak Minister to a regime which the Holy See not only refuses to recognize but considers the personification of antichrist. To complicate matters still further, Priest Tiso as an ecclesiastic is responsible to his Bishop, but the Bishop under the Slovak Constitution has to swear allegiance to President Tiso...