Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers, with no Chicago record as a gangster, was being "framed" by the Chicago Tribune as a means of winding up the whole foul Lingle mystery. The announcement of Brothers' capture, carefully timed for a Tribune scoop on the details, coincided with the first meeting of a special Grand Jury investigating Chicago crime and police. Offsetting the "frame-up" theory was the fact that nine unnamed witnesses of the murder had "positively identified" Brothers as the "big wavy-haired man with a glint in his blue eye" who had shot Lingle...
...days after his exhibit to the Press, Brothers was indicted by the regular Grand Jury, ordered to be held without bail...
...Grand old Liberian facts, confirmed by the League: 1) No slave markets exist in Liberia, but forced labor indistinguishable from slavery is used on nearly all Government works, frequently diverted to private works by corrupt officials; 2) Children are "pawned" by their parents to work until the parent's debt is discharged; 3) Contract laborers are shipped to French Congo, Spanish Fernando, "under conditions of criminal compulsion...
Next in age is Gilbert Wolff Kahn, 27, son of Otto Herman Kahn. A quiet, unobtrusive, solid young man, he exhibits none of the grand manner of his father, has no publicized talents like his young brother, Roger Wolff Kahn, who leads orchestras, composes songs, flies airplanes, writes a newspaper colyum. At Princeton, Gilbert was business editor of the Daily Princetonian. He has worked for Equitable Trust Co. and in various foreign banks...
...Detector. By a new X-ray photographic method called amniography, Dr. Thomas Orville Menees of Blodgett Memorial Hospital, Grand Rapids, Mich., has been able to detect the sex of an unborn child three months before birth. An injection of harmless strontium iodide, opaque to X-rays, makes it possible to identify the structure of the unborn child. Another important use of amniography: to determine cases where a Caesarian section is necessary for safe delivery...