Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days and five nights last week the 250,000 citizens of loud, lusty Memphis, Tenn. knocked off all work, played host to the bankers and businessmen, the planters and politicians, the farmers and their field hands. Negroes, white trash and riffraff of the entire mid-Mississippi Valley in one grand, rip-snorting jubilee-the fourth annual Cotton Carnival.* Richmond, Atlanta and New Orleans had had their days, would have them again. But last week was Memphis's and on her was every eye in Dixie. Memphis, where De Soto built his river barges 79 years before anybody heard...
...boys did a grand job," beamed the President...
...desk of the late John W. Weeks, then Secretary of War-and MacArthur got his promotion. But now it is not so easy. General MacArthur got in wrong at the White House for the way he slid out of responsibility for the air mail fiasco. Also the grand jury, investigating Army purchases, smeared him for rowing with Woodring. So the other day the White House sent to the War Department an OK for the reassignment of General G. B. Pillsbury as assistant chief of engineers. Like MacArthur. Pillsbury already had served four years on this job, was reassigned to serve...
Merry-Go-Round: Harry Woodring, Assistant Secretary of War is becoming cautious. ... As he emerged from his last session [before the grand jury] . . . he was approached by a group of newspapermen. "Sorry," said Harry, "but General MacArthur has told me not to talk." NOTE: General MacArthur . . . is Woodring's subordinate but actually runs the War Department...
...hospitals and courts. We discuss in forums alcoholic on the system. Thus you get all the data which you need to make up your mind. After you have joined, you become allied with a competing post which provides the entertainment and spreads the truth about liquor. It is a grand chance to chance yourself with the temperance cause without the sledgehammer type of reformer. Do sea if any of the boys at Harvard aren't interested." A last smile and before we knew it. We were left with but a faint aroma to remind us of this amazing woman...