Word: granded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current investigations were aimed at specific acts of disloyalty. The fact that a federal grand jury had taken no action against some persons named by congressional witnesses did not mean that those persons had been automatically cleared. For one thing, there was a strong suspicion that Department of Justice lawyers had not been overanxious to produce evidence which would reflect on a Democratic Administration. For another, congressional investigators could and should throw their spotlight in areas which no grand jury can illuminate...
...Republicans, said Harry Truman firmly, are using the congressional spy investigations as a "red herring to keep from doing what they ought to do." The investigations had produced no evidence not long known to the FBI and a federal grand jury, he added, and they served no useful purpose. "On the contrary, they are doing irreparable harm to certain persons, seriously impairing the morale of federal employees, and undermining public confidence in the Government...
Peronista Deputy José Conte Grand put the expulsion motion before the house. In support of the motion he quoted one of Sammartino's remarks: "A President who believes that the nation's history begins and ends with him shows at least a lack of mental and moral equilibrium...
...Grand Opening of WJZ-TV (Tues. 7 p.m., ABC Television). Previews of some of the programs and stars of Manhattan's sixth television station...
...power of jet engines is measured in pounds of thrust. The propulsive horsepower developed varies with the speed. At 375 m.p.h., one pound of thrust equals one "thrust horsepower." * Spruce, tweedy Whittle, 41, comes nearest to being the inventor of the turbojet. Recently the British Labor government, with a grand Old Regime gesture, handed him a tax-free thank you of ?100,000. *Pronounced mack. Named after Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach...