Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons spread his neo-Babylonian banquet for the Security Councilmen at the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel, Iran seemed far away indeed. Marshaled (vainly) to convince the U.N. that they should not move out of the hospitable Bronx were steaks, caviar, champagne and a three-piece band to play Meadowland for Delegate Gromyko. But no sooner had the last mellow tones subsided than the jarring discords of the supposedly settled Iran issue again filled...
...waiting, gravid with conflict and suspense. Two Socialist lawyers and a former Baptist lay preacher from Britain had sat for 25 days in the southeast wing of the viceregal palace, preparing to liquidate the richest portion of empire that history had ever seen-to end the British Raj, the grand and guilty edifice built and maintained by William Hawkins and Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and the Marquess Wellesley, the brawling editor James Silk Buckingham and the canny merchant Lord Inchcape, and by the great Viceroys, austere Curzon and gentle Halifax. The Raj was finished: scarcely a voice in Britain spoke...
Many graduates have received promotions. One former Fellow has left the organizing field to become Chief Clerk to Grand President Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; another former Fellow, once a field representative, has been appointed the Georgia State Director for the Textile Workers' Union of America; another, formerly a member of the negotiation committee of hs local, has been made a full-time organizer; still another has been promoted from shop chairman to full time business agent...
...last week Nanette was the smash hit of the season, grossing 210,000 francs ($1,763) a performance-a terrific take for present-day Paris. Entire families, from grand' mère down to ten-year-old Gabrielle, were trooping to see the show. They were seeing a spirited, shined-up Nanette. The Charleston-mad flapper of the '20s had become a Gallic jitterbug. In an atmosphere of glittering color and gorgeous chorines, Nanette (Claudine Cereda) writhed to boogie-woogie arrangements of Vincent Youmans' (see MILESTONES) I Want to Be Happy and crooned...
General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of military atomics, made a minor concession to the cause of science. The Oak Ridge Laboratory, he said last week, was working on an experimental plant for producing atomic power. It should be finished in a year...