Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week from Madison, Wis. the shadow of Ohio's late Senator John Sherman spread darkly across 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, 58 oilmen and three oil trade journals. Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act they were all criminally indicted by a Federal grand jury for having "combined and conspired, beginning in February 1935, and continuing to date, to raise and fix prices of gasoline sold in interstate commerce, mainly in ten States of the Middle West...
...that his offer would be safe because he was at sea, he was mistaken. Robert B. Greene, a Wall Street betting commissioner, in a radiogram to the Rex, took half the Democratic financier's bet for a client. Next a Republican who voted for Roosevelt in 1932, Le Grand Bouton Cannon of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., hastened to claim the other half of the Gerard bet on behalf of a syndicate of friends...
...Gregory Vigeant Jr. of Kansas City, which said: "Mrs. Jarrett's example to young Americans is deplorable." Next he announced that two boxers, Joe Church and Negro Howell King, had been dismissed from the team for "homesickness"' because "homesickness is a contagious disease." Finally, as a grand climax, he was elected to the International Olympic Committee to replace New Orleans' Ernest Lee Jahncke, onetime (1929-33) U. S. Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who had loudly objected last autumn to sending a U. S. Olympic team to Nazi Germany...
Trailing the five leaders is Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., which also makes organs. Story & Clark Co. is growing fast under Lothrop Perkins Bull, 35, smart, aggressive and present president of potent National Piano Manufacturers Association. A lawyer until two years ago, Pianoman Bull got into piano making by marrying a Story...
Though her unceasing outflow of tunes has made her the friend of all U.S. choir-leaders, Mrs. Adams does not drive herself. Tall, bespectacled and dignified, she seats herself at her grand piano from 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. every day, says: "I just write what I know I can write." Words come to her from her unerring memory of Holy Writ. The anthems appear finally in a neat, vertical hand, a delight to music engravers. Her work done, Carrie Belle Adams devotes herself to her large collections of cream pitchers and quilts...