Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hauptmann's scheduled execution he fought vainly, in a long, closed session, to persuade the Court of Pardons to commute the prisoner's sentence. Next day, declaring the Wendel confession "incredible," Justice Thomas W. Trenchard refused to stay the execution pending its investigation. Meantime the Mercer County Grand Jury headed by one Allyne Freeman, longtime Republican office-seeker and supposed good friend of Governor Hoffman, was weighing the charge of murder against Wendel. At 8 p. m., 20 minutes before Hauptmann was to be led to the electric chair, Foreman Freeman asked the prison warden by telephone...
...church," runs the clerical proverb, "means a dead parson." No fragile parson is J. Duncan Spaeth, who, at 67, has a voice so thundering that it routs other professors from adjoining classrooms when Dr. Spaeth chooses to pull out his vocal stops, impersonate Shylock or Othello in the grand manner. Last October the trustees of three-year-old University of Kansas City reached him by long-distance telephone, reminded him that his age would automatically retire him from Princeton soon, coaxed him to become their University's first president (TIME, Oct. 14). J. Duncan Spaeth roared, spluttered, accepted...
Original moves in any story formula as tightly established as the Grand-Hotel-in-Motion must necessarily consist of variations so stylized that, like the moves in chess, they are sensational chiefly to the initiated. One such device is having the off-duty pilot begin a flirtation with the heiress which he culminates grandly only after he has assumed his official status as Head Pilot...
...Private Life of Henry VIII, which he produced on a shoestring in 1933 and which made cinema stars of five actors in the cast from Charles Laughton to Merle Oberon, got him the backing of Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd. It also gave him a chance to explore on a grand scale his own ideas about cinema production, crystallized by a distaste for those of the U. S. industry...
Unable to raise $3,000 bail, Marcus Alonzo Hanna III, great grandson & namesake of Cleveland's late great industrialist and President-maker, was clapped into Cleveland jail to await a Grand Jury hearing of a charge that he forged the name of his uncle, Dan Rhodes Hanna, onetime publisher of the Cleveland News, to a $200 check. A onetime newshawk of 27, "Mark" Hanna III was divorced last February by the daughter of Ohio Republican Boss Maurice Maschke. Two months ago, when his father Carl Hanna, coal tycoon, died, "Mark" Hanna was disinherited, failed to attend the funeral...