Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the indictment of 16 ringleaders (including a bumptious young white radical from nearby College of the City of New York) for assault, burglary and incitement to riot, Tammanyite District Attorney William C. Dodge loudly attributed the whole affair to a Communist plot, started a grand jury investigation. Negro Communist Solomon Harper, War veteran, inventor and member of the radical League of Struggle for Negro Rights, absolved his organization of complicity, denied any connection with the Young Liberators whose members, he said, were all in their ''early twenties...
...jury of eleven (architects, an engineer, a realtor, and a professional woman) inspected each plan for a small house ($6,000 to $7,500) for a family of three, a medium-sized house ($10,000 to $20,000) for a family of four. They awarded the grand prize ($2,500) in the first group to a drawing of a modern, flat-roofed home by Hays & Simpson of Cleveland, the grand prize in the second group to a California ranch-type house by Paul Schweikher and Theodore Warren Lamb of Chicago. General Electric plans to turn these drawings and ten other...
Sale of his Congressional West Point appointment for $1,000 was the rare charge on which a special Washington grand jury last week indicted California's loud Representative John Henry ("Colonel Hoopla") Hoeppel, with his son Charles Jerome. Representative Hoeppel's first appointee to the West Point vacancy was son Charles Jerome, who quickly flunked out. Then, according to the Government, Father & Son Hoeppel sold the appointment to one James W. Ives of Baltimore for his son. Mr. Ives gave Son Hoeppel a promissory note for $1,000, found the appointment illegal, notified the War Department...
...World's Largest Army" (see p. 15), to outbluff, much less outfight, a resolute adversary like Japan. With boundless insolence the yellow men, as they bought Stalin's railway for a song last week, actually egged their puppet Emperor of Manchukuo to extend official recognition to the Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Throne of Russia. One more insult to Stalin & Co. came when Emperor Kang Te announced that while all Red Russian employes of the C. E. R. are to be fired, all its White Russian employes may keep their jobs...
...little slam remains as before (500 points non-vulnerable, 1,000 points vulnerable). Grand slam bonuses are reduced: from 2,250 to 1,500 when vulnerable; from 1,500 to 1,000 when non-vulnerable.* For tricks over the contract, the bonuses are unchanged...