Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Rapids, Mich...
Before a California Federation of Labor convention at Oakland (Knowland's home town), Knight boomed: "The intelligent, fair-minded men and women of the Republican Party in California are not going to abdicate and permit the Grand Old Party to become an antilabor party. No man with a reputation for belligerence either in international affairs or domestic affairs, no matter how high-principled he may be, is safe for executive office in the Federal Government today. And he is equally unsafe to be entrusted with the governorship of California...
...next May, when they ordinarily would have been held. By spring the yok situation will be worse and might catch up with the farmers, who form more than 80% of the electorate, and the core of Menderes' strength. Before dissolving itself for the elections, the one-house Grand National Assembly, which is dominated by Menderes' Democratic Party, rushed through appropriations for new highways and schools and even repairs on mosques in farm villages. It declared a one-year moratorium on $345 million in farmers' debts to the government. This was familiar pork-barrel politics...
...part-time office boy at 20th Century-Fox's Manhattan offices and as a hired hand for a Broadway pressagent. He explains that his journalistic training consisted mainly of burrowing through public-library files for old columns by Ed Sullivan, Louis Sobol and mostly, Walter Winchell, the grand old man of keyhole journalism...
Died. Hadj Mohammed el Mokri, chubby, white-bearded centenarian (estimated Moslem age: 116), Grand Vizier (Premier) to the last five Sultans of Morocco, dishonored and disfortuned for serving the wrong boss (i.e., France) in his country's successful struggle for independence; in Rabat, Morocco...