Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greenwood, Miss., a 20-man grand jury last week declined to indict Roy Bryant and John W. Milam for the admitted kidnaping of Emmett Till, 14, of Chicago, before he was killed. Bryant and Milam were set free; their bail bonds, $10,000 each, were returned, despite the fact that both men, while denying that they had killed young Till, admitted to police that they had taken him from his uncle's home. On behalf of the Mississippians who regretted the grand jury's failure to indict, the Jackson State Times concluded: "The case . . . wound...
...Indictments. In 1946 she badgered the county into grand jury investigations that produced 64 indictments against slot-machine operators and liquor racketeers. The same year she landed in trouble when she interviewed the widow of a Negro during the trial of five white men charged with killing him. Since the widow was a witness in the case, the judge found Editor Smith in contempt of court, told her: "I realize you are putting on a great campaign for law and order, but if you read history, you will see that the only Perfect Being did not make much...
...coach the freshman crew. He wangled leave from classes, went to England to learn the long Oxford stroke, came home and introduced it successfully at Yale. When he became varsity coach, he appointed as the new freshman coach another keen oar named Dean Acheson. Bob Cook, Yale's grand old man of rowing, once called Averell "easily the most promising crew coach in America...
...plaza from the Capitol. Guests received embossed invitations; from Hollywood came Movie Stars Pat O'Brien, Walter Pidgeon, Dan Dailey and George Murphy-all A.F.L. card carriers. In his dedicatory speech, Teamster Boss Dave Beck noted that some critics had complained that the building was "perhaps too grand" for working folk, but he told them: "This is a tribute to what the working people of America can accomplish...
Holiday. In Manhattan, Bus Driver Fred La Veccia was booked on a grand larceny charge after he toured the city in an empty bus on his day off, parked it near his home toward evening, blandly told police: "I love bus driving...