Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forbidding, grey Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary a convict petitioned the Department of Justice for the removal from his chest of a tattoo vowing eternal devotion to "Mary"; he was about to be released and wanted to marry a girl with another name. Over the Rio Grande Immigration Service patrolmen peered from their light plane in search of the Mexican wetbacks who would, if they could, slip across the border in illegal droves to work on U.S. ranches. In Tacoma, Wash, a federal grand jury accused David Daniel Beck, a labor giant with a turnip torso, of , cheating on his income taxes...
...Tacoma, Wash., after deliberating three hours, a grand jury indicted Beck for tax evasion. The jurors added a second indictment accusing him of helping prepare a fraudulent return for a building association operated by his Joint Teamster Council 28. Beck got the word in Washington, put on a pair of dark glasses, bounced into Federal Court to be fingerprinted, bounced out again on $5,000 bail. That done, he was off to Atlantic City to address 50 officers of the Teamsters' Eastern Conference. Said Dave: "If you find anyone who can do a better job than I have done...
...innocent man he had known only briefly and casually a dozen years before-for reasons that Hiss is still at a loss to explain. The House Committee, Hiss goes on, had a "political stake" in finding a Communist spy; the FBI, investigating the case, became "overzealous." The federal grand jury that indicted Hiss was stampeded by the committee and by "that portion of the public inflamed by the sensational press"; the man who prosecuted him (Thomas F. Murphy, now a U.S. district judge) outrageously "exploited the fear of Communism and the public loathing of Communists...
...Harvard Opera Guild has shown good sense in choosing three short operas for its spring presentation. Not only are the works interesting and unusual, but they are within the range of a student group whereas some of the more familiar "Grand Operas...
...oldest opera presented was Livietta and Tracollo by Pergolesi. This work was originally written to be performed between the acts of a grand and tragic opera; now only the light-hearted and melodic spoof survives. The production, staged and adroitly conducted by Arthur Schoep, was acted in a spirit of god fun by all, and well sung by Pauline Gingras and William Nethercut...