Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Grand Duchess Alice of Tuscany, 85, widow of Grand Duke Ferdinand IV who lost his throne in 1860, mother of Archduke Leopold Ferdinand who went into trade, became famed as "Leopold the Greengrocer"; in Salzburg, Austria. In reduced circumstances, she had lately turned one of her villas into a rooming house...
Gadgets are really the most important part of a boat show. Last week they outnumbered boats by 39,900, took up one entire floor of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace. Sample gadgets: streamlined searchlights, helmets for novice deep-sea divers, log cabins, bilge pumps, nautical china, gear grease, chronometers, barometers, fire extinguishers, glue. Best sellers this year as last were life-preserver cushions...
...rusty old Sherman Anti-Trust Law came back into the news last week in a big way for the first time since NIRA's enactment. A Federal Grand Jury in St. Louis indicted three major cinema companies and some of their most important executives for a conspiracy in restraint of trade. If the Department of Justice succeeds in getting a conviction, the process by which the cinema industry has sold its wares for 20 years is likely to be broken...
Three first-run theatres in St. Louis were involved in last week's action which may result in $5,000 fines, one-year imprisonment. Warner Brothers and Paramount had shared operating control of the Ambassador, the New Grand Central and the Missouri theatres until Paramount went into bankruptcy. Unable to carry on alone, Warner Brothers in the course of a mortgage foreclosure lost the lease on the theatres to an operating company headed by Allen L. Snyder which offered more rent. But when the Snyder concern tried to get Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO pictures, it found itself balked...
...Grand Elector Max has succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah...