Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week South Carolina's Senator Coleman Livingston Blease made one of his customary speeches in the Senate against crime and immorality in the city of Washington. What provoked him was a report by the District of Columbia Grand Jury that the Capital was not the vice-ridden, lawless community it had been pictured. The bristly-haired Senator from South Carolina shouted that in Washington there is no Prohibition "to the wealthy man . . . to the embassies . . . to the cabinet . . . to Mr. Hoover if he does not want to have it . . . to a Senator . . . to a Congressman...
Senator Blease waved him down with: "I'll not go into that. I have this book and another. They're in the libraries of this city for children to read. Yet Washington is a clean model city . . . the New Jerusalem, if we listened to the Grand Jury...
Amid Turkish cheers roughly translatable as "economy forever!" the Grand National Assembly voted confidence in Prime Minister Ismet, took under favorable advisement his plans for curtailing Turkish imports not only of perfume but also of silks, tea, coffee. On imported tea and coffee alone Turkey spends $1.57 per capita every year...
...Like a rabbit in the outstretched arms of a magician, Grand Admiral Yang Shu-chuang, Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Navy, vanished in broad daylight last week at Foochow...
They said, "It would be grand...