Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...KROGER Grand Island...
Johnston, onetime callboy, engine wiper, fireman and engineer on the Great Northern, had been a B. of L.E. official 16 years when he became its Grand Chief Engineer (a title he loves to roll on his tongue) in 1925. Besides the title, he also inherited the union's sour financial ventures-notably a bank and a $15,000,000 burst bubble in Florida real estate. His inaugural address: "I am no banker...
Johnston was indicted along with Standard's slick C. Stirling Smith for juggling B. of L.E. collateral of doubtful value to window-dress Standard's shakiness. The Grand Chief Engineer had to admit on the witness stand that, as president of the predecessor bank, he had borrowed some of its funds for stockmarket speculations-at a $36,000 loss to the bank. Along with Smith, previously convicted as an embezzler, Johnston was found guilty of misapplying funds and making false entries. An Ohio appellate court tossed out the Johnston conviction as against the weight of evidence, granted...
State Attorney General Robert Kenny, charging that the Klan had been operating unlawfully in California for the last ten years,* moved that it be declared officially dead. In Los Angeles, a superior court judge hauled three former Grand Dragons and an ex-Kleagle before him. After listening to the Dragon's loud denials of connection with, or interest in, the Klan, he granted the unopposed Kenny motion...
...performers-using the late, great Poet William Butler Yeats's excellent translation-caught the clenched force of the play, and the grand dimensions. They played daringly, theatrically, with no mingy concessions to "realism"; but they tempered their intensity with style...