Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Roosevelt ordered the current Ewald investigation only after much hesitation. He then instructed the Republican Attorney General to limit his special grand jury to the case in hand. Fortnight ago the jury, ignoring this restriction, sought to delve into rumors of a large-scale job-buying system in Tammany Hall. To be able to make more indictments, the jury wanted all witnesses to waive their Constitutional immunity from having their testimony used against them. Subpenaed and presented with immunity waivers to sign were John Francis ("Boss") Curry, chief of Tammany Hall, and the leaders of his 23 districts. Boss...
...entrance of famed, retired Attorney Clarence S. Darrow into court cases in defense of two of the 26 gangsters listed by Col. Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chicago Association of Commerce,* as the city's greatest Public Enemies. On the strength of this list, the September grand jury, under the foremanship of Vice President Gabriel Flournoy Slaughter of American Steel Foundries, had resurrected an ancient vagrancy law. Judge John H. Lyle then issued vagrancy warrants for the arrest thereunder of notorious gangsters...
...taunt and a challenge have been flung at Harvard from somewhere in the middle west. The Grand Rapids Press in a few, simple, pregnant phrases has denounced the University football team as a group of boys whose sole purpose is to bring, money into the Harvard coffers. They enlarge upon this indictment by announcing that the students here have little or no interest in the team. And they end by stating a derogatory hypothetical case which involves the reputation of the Harvard quarterback. These are pretty serious charges; and worse, they have quoted a university official to lend gravity...
...offered a rebuttal, but it will require quick action on the part of the student body. In a few weeks the Michigan team plays at the Stadium. If Harvard can only prove to them how loyal it is to the football squad, all will be well. The guns of Grand Rapids will be silenced. But a convincing proof will require work. It will mean cheering practices, it will mean new uniforms for the band, it will perhaps mean an extra tuba or two. It will be work, hard work; but if this thing can be put across it will...
...open to see whether Barry Wood, with fourth down and goal to go, glances at his wrist watch and rushes off the field explaining: "Excuse me, please, I have a heavy bit of reading to do for economics and I'll have to run down to the library. The Grand Rapids Press...