Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Riviera resort now striving mightily to push itself. Lotteries, beauty contests, automobile raffles and all such on the Riviera are very often "fixed." Even smarter is the usual way of naming prizes. The prettiest girl or swankiest car gets the "Prize of Honor," No. 2 the "Grand Prize" and No. 3 the "First Prize"-thus making at least three people proud and happy...
...grand jury consisted of twelve Methodist elders. If they found a presumption of guilt against Bishop Cannon, they would suspend him from all Church duties, including chairmanship of the Board of Temperance & Social Service, until 1934, when the next Church quadrennial convention would actually...
...Mastin of Richmond. Particularly were they excited at newspaper reports of how the Bishop courted his traveling secretary, Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, whom he married (his second wife) in London last July and took to Brazil for a honeymoon. The Ministers demanded the Church equivalent of a grand jury investigation of Bishop Cannon. Perforce Bishop William Neuman Ainsworth of Birmingham, Ala., ruling Bishop of the Church, was obliged to hold a hearing. Bishop Cannon delayed action from September when the charges were filed, until last week because his arthritis became worse and worse. He has spent most of the past...
...This grand jury met in Washington's Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church. Chambered with them were the four accusing ministers; Bishop Ainsworth and two other bishops who helped him umpire the proceedings, Bishop Cannon, Professor James Cannon III, Duke University religious historian,? and a friend. Brought in by the prosecution were a detective, a Hearst reporter, a school executive, quantities of documents...
First thing that Mr. Hearst's "best brain in America" managed to do after he had crutched his aching way into the hearing was to transform the quasi-grand jury into a petit jury of twelve good men and diffident. He gained the privilege of cross-examining his accusers and their witnesses. Also he gained the valuable opportunity of presenting his counter-arguments...