Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought up was the many million dollars worth of pictures which he had given to his Andrew W. Mellon Educational & Charitable Trust, and which the Treasury did not consider bona fide. Mr. Mellon retorted that he had overpaid the Treasury some $139,000 and charged political persecution. A Pittsburgh grand jury refused to indict him. During the three years the case dragged along before the 15-man Board of Tax Appeals, eight changes in membership occurred and 10,350 pages of testimony were presented. Mr. Mellon, who spent five days on the stand in Washington in the spring...
Last week a somewhat showy light in the East appeared for U. S. artists who would like to do serious illustrations for good books. Foregathered for a grand dinner in the Jade Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria were 300 socialite members of an organization known as The Limited Editions Club, which, for annual dues of $120, has since 1929 been sending them twelve Fine Books a year. Also on hand were four well-known U. S. artists, cherubic John Steuart Curry, swarthy Thomas Benton, freckle-fisted Reginald Marsh and bright-nosed Henry Varnum Poor. To them the Limited...
...nine months plus 149 days (the period a soul spends in purgatory) after the death of a Grand Lama, priests throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia watch for eclipses, earthquakes, avalanches, cloudbursts. Where such phenomena occur, the Lama's soul may, on the appointed day, enter the body of an infant about to be born. The mother may identify her holy offspring by other portents & miracles and by seven signs which include a full set of teeth in the babe, a birthmark resembling a tiger's stripes, an ability to utter the name of Buddha...
...divers, as a 27-year-old engineer named Max Nohl demonstrated last week when he descended 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan. This was the deepest dive ever made in a diving suit.* An unofficial record of 361 feet was established in 1916 in Michigan's Grand Traverse Bay. Previous official record was 306 ft., set in 1915 by Frank Crilley of the U. S. Navy who reached the submarine F-4 at the bottom of Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...
Capacity attendance of nearly 2,000 was expected for the N. A. M. banquet which, at $8 per plate, will wind up the three-day Congress in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom. It will represent the greatest aggregation of white-tied wealth and power ever assembled under one roof. Scheduled to decorate the head tables along with such non-capitalists as Eddie Rickenbacker, Bishop Manning, Bruce Barton and Sinclair Lewis, are such household industrial names as Owen D. Young, Lammot du Pont, Packer Gustavus F. Swift, Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay...