Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ghent, Mate Adams dragged mutinous Seaman Myak Wooker, 6-ft.-6-in. Esthonian, from beneath a bunk. Seaman Wooker seized a fire axe. Mate Adams shot him dead. Belgian authorities cleared Mate Adams. Last month, charged. with murder on the high seas, Mate Adams was freed by a Manhattan grand jury...
...Wrestern irregulars. Because he is "ineffectual," Mr. Tilson will be shunned by many of his fellow Eastern "reactionaries." Who, then, would be offered as the Republican compromise? Last fortnight Observer Clinton W. Gilbert's often accurate political finger pointed to bald, bespectacled Carl Edgar Mapes of Grand Rapids, Mich., 18 years a Congressman. Universally respected and trusted, 56-year-old Congressman Mapes substituted for Speaker Longworth more often than any other member of the House. He is quiet-spoken, famed for fair play, an expert on legislative procedure. In Congress he voted for the Bonus, the Federal Farm Board...
...other committee. He dropped his support of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 when the G. 0. P. split, but has voted Progressively for the Norris Muscle Shoals bill. No Congressman spends more time on the nation's business than Representative Mapes. He has a little law office in Grand Rapids' Widdicomb Building, seldom gets home...
Violent Hopes. Swish, splash, the Lindbergh plane alighted next day on a watery waste near Hinghwa, east of the Grand Canal and 70 miles from Nanking. With famished yells, Chinese in sampans and in tubs paddled for the plane, snatched at boxes of medical supplies which the two doctors proceeded to unload. "Ah, food!" cried a snatcher. Seizing some boxes of absorbent gauze he ripped one open, tried to eat the white stringy stuff, raged to find it not food. Other Chinese snatched, bit, fell to reviling the two doctors, one a Chinese. Said Colonel Lindbergh afterward...
...Combined circulation of Tower group: 1,330,000; of Modern group (exclusive of newsstand sales): 657,000. †Grand-Silver Stores Inc., McCrory Stores Corp., McClellan Stores, G. C. Murphy Co., Neisner Bros. Inc., J. J. Newberry...