Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week thought they had caught the Post Office Department aiding and abetting a new form of racket in post office leases throughout the land. On the Senate floor the Department was flayed for renting, often without competitive bids, not less than 27 offices, including those in St. Paul, Dallas, Grand Rapids, and Columbus, Ohio, from a Chicago syndicate known as Jacob Kulp & Co. It was charged that the Kulp concern did what amounted to a brokerage business in postal leases, had issued some $150,000.000 in bonds on the strength of these leases, which was vastly in excess...
...Post Office Department's 20-year lease on the St. Paul post office opposite Union Station. U. S. rent: $120,000 per year. Property values appraised by the U. S. court: $317,000. Bonds sold by Kulp on the property: $1,150,000. In March 1928, the Federal Grand Jury at St. Paul expressed its opinion that the lease was "tainted with fraud and corruption." Rent payments thereupon ceased, pending action by the Department of Justice. Nothing has happened in two years...
...Wintringham '30, secretary of the organization. Election to Tau Beta Pi is the highest scholastic honor that can be conferred upon a candidate for the degree of S. B. being analogous to Phi Beta Kappa. Those to receive this honor are W. F. Billings '31 of Grand Rapids, Michigan, C. H. Mats '31, W. R. Stone '31, of Athol, R. K. Wesson '31, of Brighton, and F. V. Weeks '31 of Ogden, Utah...
...from Milwaukee, around the outskirts of Chicago, Hammond and Gary to the Michigan line. Of the 185 miles of right-of-way necessary for this toll road, 150 have been donated or leased. Last year plans were announced for a 25-mile elevated pavement for express motor travel over Grand Trunk R. R. tracks between Detroit and Pontiac, Mich. (TIME, Sept...
...middleaged, $25-a-week worker in a raybestos factory at Passaic, N. J., who had been buying tickets in lotteries, raffles, baseball pools all his life, and Angelina and Sophie Jobe, waitresses in the Hollywood Coffee Shop on Second Avenue, Manhattan: $23,130 and $12,000 respectively in the Grand National sweepstakes...