Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...event attracted more interest than the competition between the big Holsteins. Judged grand champion bull was a tremendous black-&-white beast named Man o' War XXX. He weighed 2,500 Ib., was priced by his owner-Ed Hofland of Menomonie. Wis.-at $12,500. With imperious, melancholy eye, Man o' War XXX watched a mere stripling weighing less than a ton and named Sir Triune Pansy null win the 12 mo.-18 mo. class...
...that authentic? Oh, isn't it just grand! Mr. Tinkham will be so pleased!" The female secretary of black-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, longtime political enemy of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, almost jumped for joy. For Bishop Cannon had just been indicted, with Miss Ada L. Burroughs, bespectacled treasurer of the Virginia Anti-Smith Committee in 1928, both charged with violations of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act. It was the same charge that Representative Tinkham had made last year; but Bishop Cannon had defied the Caraway Lobby Investigating Committee...
...This is merely a plot to discredit me. a persecution by a Roman Catholic district attorney acting under orders of his priest.'' (The case had been turned over by Catholic District Attorney Rover to Protestant Assistant District Attorney John J. Wilson, who presented the evidence to the Grand Jury last month.) With bond set at $1.000 and the trial slated for some time before Jan. i, Bishop Cannon said he did not fear. He has previously defended his action on the ground that the Corrupt Practices Act deals only with Federal officers. Presidential electors, for whom the money...
Chief feature of the opening night was the appearance of Bishop James Cannon Jr., indicted that day by the Washington Grand Jury for violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (see p. 15). Last month Bishop Cannon was snubbed by Bishop Edwin DuBose Mouzon who, presiding over a church conference at Roanoke, Va., did not invite Bishop Cannon to sit on the platform. Bishop Cannon complained, left the room unapplauded. In marked contrast last week, 2,000 people in Atlanta's Wesley Memorial Church applauded vigorously as Bishop Cannon, still suffering from arthritis ("aggravated," said he, "by the thrusts...
...poor, gawky, with big ambitions and no prospects when "Susan" first met him. He was reader to a Manhattan publisher; she was editorial factotum on a woman's magazine. He courted her with picnics, omnivorous enthusiasm, awkward gestures: finally she gave in, married him. At first they had a grand time, especially when Tim's stories had begun to make enough so that they could travel. But from the day his God's Own Country (Main Street) became a best seller dated all of Susan's troubles. Success inevitably went to his head and he further bamboozled himself by drinking...