Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rights and justice." Then the long funeral procession wound up the road to a Roman Catholic cemetery where Sophie Crempa was buried. . . . New Jersey's Governor Hoffman stepped in last week to demand quick action in the Crempa case. The county prosecutor promised a thoroughgoing investigation by a grand jury to be convened this week. It was up to that body to choose between the Crempas' story that the deputies had attacked them without warning, the deputies' story that they had fired in self-defense when the Crempas rushed out of their house with guns banging...
...immaculate, grey-templed John J, Kemp, broker to many a stage & screen star, member of the Million-Dollar Club, each of whose members sells $1,000.000 of insurance annually. Into successful Insuranceman Kemp's Manhattan office last week marched two detectives to arrest him for forgery and grand larceny. Sighed Prisoner Kemp: "I've been expecting this for seven years." Last year he had received an insurance dividend check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers, beneficiary. He had forged Mrs. Rogers' signature, pocketed the money. Accountants, delving into his records, concluded that over a period...
When Paramount went bankrupt in 1933, a minor consequence appeared to be the fate of three St. Louis cinemansions-the Ambassador, Missouri and New Grand Central-which Paramount and Warner Brothers had jointly operated. Warner took over the theatres and for a time ran them alone. When the theatres failed to make money, mortgages were foreclosed. Warner put in a bid which was rejected. The theatres went to a local company which leased operating rights to the theatrical firm of Fanchon & Marco...
Fanchon & Marco thereupon complained to the Department of Justice that, by withholding their films, Warner, Paramount and RKO were violating the Sherman Law. A Federal Grand Jury indicted the three companies. To cinemanufacturers, the St. Louis case last week looked like the spearhead of a Government attack on their film-selling system...
...Grand Coulee (Wash.) News, 'R. C." inserted an advertisement: "Found-lady's purse left in my car while parked. Owner can have same by describing property and paying for this ad. If owner can explain satisfactorily to my wife how purse got into car, will pay for ad myself...