Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, the State had Queen Helen on trial for grand theft, soliciting a bribe and conspiracy. Her co-defendants were Convict Weinblatt and easy-going Pete Werner. Most damaging testimony was offered by the trio's accuser, Gertrude Davey, proprietor of Hollywood's Lon Chancy Jr. Cafe. Red-haired Mrs. Davey told of going to Pete Werner's law office and paying Queen Helen a $250 installment of the $500 she was told it would cost to recover her revoked liquor license from the State Board of Equalization. Queen Helen, she said, boasted that she controlled...
...every act last week after the decision of His Majesty to abdicate and become not "Mr. Windsor" but Prince Edward, newly created Duke of Windsor, and still Knight of the Most Ancient & Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Knight Grand Commander of the Most Exalted Star of India, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Master of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, Grand Master of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Knight of the Golden Fleece of Spain, Knight of the Order...
...many a U. S. Catholic diocese during the past few years the simple gambling game of bingo (or beano, or keno) has served as a prime money-raiser, just as in U. S. cinemas a similar pastime, screeno, fills houses no matter how bad the bill. Though in Grand Rapids, Mich, a woman was arrested for sponsoring beano games last year (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935), elsewhere officials have winked at the game if it violated antigambling statutes. The Catholic Bishop of Albany, N. Y., Most Reverend Edmund F. Gibbons, made news last week by becoming the first prelate to forbid...
...recognized as the best Ski-meister in the Alps, Hannes Schneider was hired as leading man in the German Film The Wonders of Skiing. The picture popularized skiing in Central Europe, made Hannes Schneider grand wizard of all Europe's ski wizards. Back in St. Anton, he opened his Arlberg school. First month he had 100 pupils. The next month he had 200. The St. Anton natives he had taught free were useful to Skimeister Schneider. He hired them as associate professors. By 1925, Hannes Schneider's Arlberg Ski School was winter headquarters for most of Europe...
...grand ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week took place the year's most spectacular conversion. Having assimilated last month's election returns, 1,800 high-powered U. S. citizens convened for the 41st annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers. Loudly they declared that henceforth their aims and those of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal were to be one & the same...