Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...larger than eight inches square, none could be colored. Nearly 3,000,000 pictures were submitted. Finals narrowed down to 282 entries from 47 countries. Cotton Worker Powell won the British national prize of $5,000 and an additional class award of $500. He also won the grand prize of $10,000 and a cash award of $1,000. Beside the money he was given a gold medal and a silver statue of a female figure, draped, holding aloft an actual photographic lens...
...nothing. Residue of the estate forms a trust fund for Mrs. Florence Crane, the widow, and Cornelius and Florence Crane, children. If they die childless, one-half of the residue goes to Crane employes, one-half to eight Chicago hospitals and charities. Birthdays, Hon. Katherine Plunket of Ballymascanlan, "Grand Old Lady of Ireland" (in); Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes (64); Representative John Nance Garner (62); the Pennsylvania Limited (50); Archduke Otto of Habsburg (19)-Died, John Walker ("Johnny") Pope, 32, famed young Wall Street operator; of a lung infection following whooping cough; in Manhattan...
Present were three of President Garfield's children: Harry Augustus, president of Williams College; Abram, Cleveland architect; Mrs. Joseph Stanley-Brown. A Grand Old Man, always a useful adjunct to celebrations, was also on hand: venerated Lawyer Andrew Squire of Cleveland, student under President Garfield, who told how he alone of his class was too young (11) to serve in the Civil War when Lieut. Colonel Garfield was mustering a regiment. Two Hiram coeds, dressed in hoopskirts, helped plant an evergreen tree on the campus. "Taps" sounded as a flag was run up the flagstaff-the flag which covered...
...Coast, Ferde Grofe has been Paul Whiteman's Man Friday, anonymously scoring tunes, embroidering them until even some of the sleaziest have taken on symphonic richness. Last week in Chicago a great crowd gave him longaccumulated credit. Paul Whiteman played Ferde Grofe's Five Pictures of the Grand Canyon and the audience shouted approval of a smoothly syncopated sunrise and sunset, a thunderous, climactic canyon storm...
...Grand Rapids, Mich.. thieves stole Jacob Popowicz's pet rabbit, returned another night and took his silverware. Third time they came Jacob Popowicz had prepared for them. He left them, and they seized a hive of bees...