Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bang! went Surrogate James A. Foley's gavel. He indignantly dismissed the Morris claim as "false and a forgery." Promptly the District Attorney had Claimant Morris jailed in default of $10,000 bail as a material witness for the Grand Jury. Claimant Morris, no intellectual giant, seemed dazed at this upshot, mumbled: "Now I don't know whether I'm John's son or not. But I wouldn't go through those court hearings again if I was positive." His public, doubting him shrewd enough to have concocted his case, waited to see what manner...
...Repeal; 2) 25% Economy; 3) "Happy Days Shall Come Again." Declared Pundit Kent: "That's all he has promised. Just those three little things. Practically nothing else. If he redeems one of them he will have accomplished a lot. If he redeems two of them, it will be perfectly grand. If he redeems all three of them he should be President for life...
Grace Abbott of Grand Island, Neb. is head of the Federal Children's Bureau...
...course from which she expected to emerge the Director of a Soviet Rayon Trust. There was disagreement last week as to whether she graduated last July or would have graduated this December. She was last seen alive (by foreigners) on Sunday, Nov. 6, enjoying a performance at Moscow's Grand Theatre...
House of Peers said privately that the government must fall. But how? There was no sign that the Army & Navy, which in Japan are responsible to the Emperor alone, and can hamstring the politicians, had wavered. The Army was last week engaged in annual "Grand Maneuvers." Suddenly at night a typhoon burst upon Tokyo, plunged the Capital into darkness as power lines were torn down, silenced telephones and telegraphs, engulfed 30,000 flimsy houses. Japan must expand, say her sabre-rattlers, because of her "population pressure." This is exerted by a population roughly half as great as that...