Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also the month of Hospital drives, Community Chest drives. For the U. S.'s No. 1 charitarian rich man, John D. Rockefeller Jr., it was a busy week, with not only charity but a ceremony attendant on the presentation by the French Government of the Diplome de Grand Prix to Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes. Meanwhile, at one of his father's endowments, the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins announced that Chicago, would gladly take over Oxford's Rhodes scholars during...
...greatest work of my life," said Senator Wagner), and although the San Francisco Stock Exchange threatened to move to Reno if "ham-and-eggs" went through in California, innovations generally led to no such drastic action. At whatever cost, the accomplishments of reform remained: TVA, reforestation, soil erosion control, Grand Coulee...
Yesterday the head of the German Navy, Grand Admiral Raeder, officially informed the American Government, through the United States Naval Attache in Berlin that according to information on which he relied, an American ship, the Iroquois, is to be sunk when it nears our American east coast...
...nine riotous years the late Huey Long's Louisiana State University seemed the answer to a collegian's dream. Upon his students the Kingfish lavished two luxurious athletic stadia, a huge gymnasium, a mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year...
...questions concerning Harvard will come up in the campaign, according to Bill. He referred to Mike's motion in the City Council to change the name of Harvard Square to Washington Square and said: "I have always known where Harvard Square is and so did my grand parents, so I guess there is no need of changing the name...