Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Rapids, Mich...
...were the first incredible reports of the MacCormick visit to Welfare Island announced than half a dozen agencies preened themselves on having instigated the raid. Among them were the Daily News, the World-Telegram, the New York Foundation, which had paid for an investigation begun two years ago, a grand jury which had recommended an investigation of the prison's "gross mismanagement" last year. Plain, however, was the fact that it took an anti-Tammany administration to dig to the bottom of Welfare Island's cesspool of corruption...
...District of Columbia a Civil Works Administration supervisor was arrested last week for collecting bribes from workers seeking advancement. In Los Angeles two women were arrested for conspiracy to defraud the Government in CWA work and a grand jury was just warming up for a series of indictments. In Pennsylvania a CWA engineer was dismissed for having taken a commission on a CWA job. The Oregon department of the American Legion passed resolutions complaining that people not in need were getting CWA jobs, that CWA was full of favoritism and inefficiency. In Harvey, outskirt of Chicago, six employed politicians were...
...which are non-tax-paid . . . in states where alcohol control laws do not provide for a county or state store system, but only require a license or some similar system, these fictitious imitations are being sold promiscuously in every sort of establishment." That this continuance of bootlegging on the grand scale can be, to a considerable degree, attributed to the high prices charged by the distiller goes without saying. That the Federal Government will be sufficiently cognizant of its own interests to remedy the situation by forcing the dislitters to lower their charges or by allowing larger importations of foreign...
...Saturday matinees on the air as a sustaining feature. Currently the Met matinees are being sponsored over the NBC chain by Lucky Strike which contributes some $100,000 per season to the Met treasury for the privilege. But last week Met Director Sarnoff wanted to talk less about broadcasting grand opera than he did about a new RCA opus...