Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ELEANOR C.A. Southern Corning, N. Y. Sirs: . . . .For my information, will you kindly vise the other five? THOMAS C. WINTER Grand Rapids, Mich. Let TIME readers choose their own other five from the following list: Atlanta Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Dallas News, Detroit News, Kansas City Star...
Giving himself up at Louisville last week, where last May he had ridden Omaha to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Willie ("Smoky") Saunders was indicted by a grand jury for being accessory to murder. Chief witness...
Messiah. A painting of Dr. Townsend stood last week at the head of the stairway to the Stevens' Grand Ballroom and pictures of him sold fast at 50? apiece. With the pleasant-faced little woman who was a widow with seven children when he married her, the gaunt, grey, gentle one-time country doctor moved among his followers receiving the reverence accorded an authentic Messiah. He it was who first had the gleam which promised to give old people ease, young people jobs, drive poverty from the land forever. Since early last summer he and Mrs. Townsend traveling mostly...
...Francisco has heard the complete Ring only twice before, once by Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera when it visited there in 1900, once by the itinerant German Grand Opera in 1930. The German company had singers who were either worn out or third-rate. The scenery was shoddy, the orchestra ragged. For its first home-grown Ring, the San Francisco Opera is spending $80,000, importing such peerless Wagnerians as Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Some $40,000 has been invested in scenery alone. There is a horrible, life-like dragon and a special new cloud...
...bluff John Jeremiah Pelley walked out to become special Washington pleader for the Association of American Railroads. Last week dry, quiet, abstemious President Palmer, whose father is still the Maine Central station agent at East Sumner, Me., dragged himself from a gloomy directors meeting in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to perform the saddest duty that ever devolves upon a railroad man. He announced that the New Haven could not meet its obligations, was filing a reorganization petition under the Bankruptcy Act. Mr. Palmer's announcement was hardly a surprise. Indeed, the stockmarket was so resigned...