Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to Chief Rogers, Captain Willmott, who died the evening before the disaster, had called Alagna "an agita tor and a vengeful person," had ordered Rogers to dismiss Alagna at the end of the voyage. When U. S. Attorney Martin Conboy who was conducting a Grand Jury investigation of his own, heard this, Radioman Alagna, already held as a mate rial witness, had his bail raised. It took two days to get the story straight: The extent of Alagna's agitation was to strike for better pay once just before sailing time. The extent of his "revenge...
...Russia, a wailing China and an Irish Free State brimming with cussedness were on the capable hands of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou at Geneva last week, and he is 72. Never once did the verve, élan and practical wisdom of this Gascon grandfather falter. He is the grand practitioner of the Old Diplomacy. He knows what his country wants and is not ashamed to live like a discriminating prince while getting it. Last week his immediate purpose was to wangle Soviet Russia into the League of Nations but he was preparing other, greater moves in the endless chess...
Comrade Litvinoff was hovering last week just beyond the Swiss frontier in the tiny French village of Douvaine, waiting for M. Barthou to send the word that would mean for Bolshevik Russia a grand entry with appropriate nourish into the League of Nations. In one of their frequent talks by telephone last week. Comrade Litvinoff grew so impatient that he hung up on M. Barthou in vexation, but the Gascon grandfather only chuckled, "Tiens, tiens! Ces enfants! They must learn patience...
Other Germans who merit executive clemency, the Realmleader decreed, will be pardoned by General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia, Air Minister and Grand Master of the Chase, who conducted the Nazi blood purge in Berlin while Herr Hitler was purging Munich (TIME, July 9). Since Nazi Goring, a War ace grown beefy, designs a new uniform for himself every time he adds to his string of offices, Berlin buzzed with scurrilous rumors that "Hermann has sent to Oberammergau for the costume of the Saviour in which he will sign pardons...
...Yorkers were suddenly reminded one day last week that they once (1911-17) had a U. S. Senator named James A. O'Gorman. The kindly, white-bearded old gentleman spent a quarter hour before a grand jury, trying to stall off an indictment of the executive committee of defunct New York Title & Mortgage Co. for allegedly issuing false and deceptive statements in connection with the sale of guaranteed mortgages. Now 74, a trustee of New York University, Mr. O'Gorman emerged from the grand jury chamber with tears in his eyes. A little later...