Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...step taken last week was the indictment, by the Federal Grand Jury in Buffalo of 30 Canadian distillers and their agents, including Board-Chairman Harry C. Hatch of the Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts distillery, Canada's largest. The offense charged: conspiracy-to-smuggle. The significance: none, unless Distiller Hatch & friends set foot in the U. S. Under the present treaty they cannot be extradited...
...paper of which he makes a hobby, L'Ami du Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation...
Last summer Clarence led Dick to the Marshall County Fair; Dick won the grand champion steer prize. Then Clarence led Dick to the Iowa State Fair at Des Moines; Dick won third prize. Both prizes brought Clarence $148 cash. Someone offered Clarence $1 a pound for Dick on the hoof. Clarence's father said sell; Clarence said no, he wanted to exhibit Dick at the International Live Stock Show at Chicago. And to Chicago last week he led Dick...
...Grand opera was the dream of this girl from Detroit. Between vocalizings, however, she found it necessary to get a job, and she got one in the office of blithe, clever Editor Wyckoff. She became his stenographer and secretary...
...still alive-&-kicking-alive enough to have gained and retained fame as a grand exalted past master of cartooning. His kicking is what has kept him from enjoying the mass reputation of men like Ding. Briggs, Bud Fisher. Something in Art Young resents contracts, syndication and orders as to what ideas he shall draw. He has free-lanced for 35 years in Life, Puck, Judge, Metropolitan and many another magazine, past and present, rather than earn the "big money" that Arthur Brisbane once told him he deserved as a syndicate artist. It was natural, perhaps. that just after giving this...