Word: grand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Shigeru Yoshida, a barnacle-encrusted politician of 76, packed his beloved haori, hakama and tabi (ceremonial jacket, loose pants, split-toed white socks), put on his dark pin-stripe suit and wing collar, and whisked out to Tokyo's airport this week to begin a grand tour of North America and Europe...
...Amsterdam, Russia's champion chess team, playing without Grand Masters Mikhail Botvinnik and Vassily Smyslov, swept through the final round of an international tournament (which the U.S. did not enter because it "could not afford to send a team"), won nine of their other matches and drew one (with Israel), also took the Hamilton-Russell trophy for the second year...
...charges of espionage were revived at periodic intervals, however. A special grand jury in New York City is reported to have considered the accusations in 1947 but took no action in the matter and did not even call Glasser as a witness...
...House committee been stopped so short in an inquiry." Velde's committee immediately voted unanimously to recommend him for contempt and later secured the citation from Congress. The citation is at present at the Attorney General's office, waiting for a decision on presenting it to a Grand Jury...
...Wisconsin Senator if the Committee condemned him for urging government employees to inform on any of their superiors whom they suspected of disloyalty. But Arthur E. Sutherland, professor of Law, said that Attorney General Herbert L. Brownell, as the nation's chief law officer can still ask for a Grand jury indiciment against McCarthy...