Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, who early in the campaign had contributed money to Henry Wallace's Progressives, hustled over to G.O.P. Manhattan headquarters to offer his support to Dewey in person, missed him, then caught up with the candidate in Grand Central Station. "Hello, stranger," cried Dewey, thrusting out his hand. "I wish you luck," said Joe, with careful regard for the candidate's bursitis...
Last week the Justice Department acted-but it acted against Investigator Thomas. A Federal Grand Jury in Washington began looking into charges, repeatedly printed by Columnist Drew Pearson, that Congressman Thomas had padded his office payroll with the names of several people who did no work and who kicked back to him all or part of their salaries. Attorney General Tom Clark's lawyers proceeded under a statute which makes it a criminal offense to issue false statements to the Government. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine...
...considerable number of graduate students delay the question of getting a job by entering graduate schools; a few others by-pass the problem altogether by such dodges as taking a desk at the paternal office, or by making a Grand Tour. But for the majority each year, the question of a post-college livelihood becomes one of urgency as Commencement festivities approach...
Last week, at Paris' 35th automobile "salon," in the huge, ugly Grand Palais, Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Simca and Ford (of France) trotted out their latest models to compete for attention with exhibits from U.S., British, Italian and Czech motormakers. Some of the tiny French cars looked lost among the Lincolns and Cadillacs, the British Bentleys and Rolls-Royces, the Italian Alfa Romeos and Isotta-Fraschinis. But France had a luxury car of her own in Saoutchik's elegant, hand-built models: the light grey Delahaye, whose front fenders are bisected by mirrorlike wedges of gleaming chrome (price: about...
...Pluribus Unum. No technical innovator, Author Cozzens demonstrates his theme by the popular "Grand Hotel" method of assembling hordes of people, all with singular points of view, in one place-a huge World War II airbase. in Florida. Some of them are elderly, Regular Army officers to whom the mechanics of war are as vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel...