Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand President...
...grain per month will be needed for the next six months. Waters will recede after several months, but slowly, for the fall of the Yangtze at Hankow is little more than one inch per mile. The Hwai River empties into the Yangtze by way of several lakes and the Grand Canal, which, ordinarily sufficient to empty it, will keep it flooded for many a month. Crops this year are already ruined; soon cold weather will freeze the water lying over the vast plain, and planting will be impossible next spring. Then there will be some more famine...
...during the last year. In three drought-ridden areas-Kentucky, Missouri, Montana-it had aided both members and nonmembers. Biennially the convention elects Supreme officers; last week it re-elected the entire Supreme Council, including (for the third successive term) Supreme Knight Martin Henry Carmody. 59, a lawyer of Grand Rapids, Mich...
...important buys during 1929 was Berkey & Gay, a Grand Rapids company making high class general furniture. The concern was one of the oldest in Grand Rapids and its $9,000,000-a-year sales volume made it one of the biggest. It was not operating at a profit because the furniture business then, as now, was confused and upset. Zalmon Gilbert Simmons, president of Simmons Co., planned not only to make his company potent in furniture but to bring stability and prosperity to the entire industry. In great advertisements in the Grand Rapids press he stated: "It is my desire...
...average, not to say mediocre lot; but when Author Crawshay-Williams lets you follow them into their separate sanctums, shows them quarreling, soliloquizing, making love, they cease to be typical specimens, become (in most cases) strikingly individual. The fact that it duplicates the idea of Vicki Baum's Grand Hotel overshadows but does not invalidate the book...