Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public had a right to think that the case was getting somewhere, that it was now in appropriate hands. Everyone could hope and expect that the case would be tried and decided by due process of law -and the first step in that process was action by the grand jury...
...Shanghai should the city's fall become imminent. A neighboring correspondent and his wife, who plan to stay, got a new Ford automobile the other day as a gift from an evacuating Chinese family who couldn't take the car along with them. Then they got a grand piano in the same fashion. Now they're dazedly talking about the ill wind of evacuation...
...third ring was a New York federal grand jury, sworn in 18 months ago to investigate spies and subversive activities.* It had paid little attention to the Hiss-Chambers case, although it had heard testimony from both men last summer. After Chambers had produced the stolen State Department documents and after the House committee had obtained the "pumpkin papers," the grand jury moved in rapidly. On orders from Attorney General Tom Clark, U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey summoned Chambers and Hiss again, along with Hiss's wife, his brother, and a parade of other witnesses and new suspects...
...Matter. The grand jury and the House committee each truculently proclaimed its authority, competed for witnesses. Committeeman Richard Nixon said angrily that a whitewashing was in the making in the grand jury...
Harvard Club of Western Michigan, Merlin C. Findlay, 1103 People's National Bank Building, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania, F. J. Torrance Baker '38, 341 Fourth ave., Pittsburgh; Harvard Club of Worcester, Chester W. Cook '19, 75 Park...