Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nevile Henderson, who sat for Britain on the Commission of Ambassadors which settled the final territorial details of the Munich peace. About the best he could say was that whereas at Godesberg the Führer demanded 12,000 square miles of Czechoslovak territory, Germany has now received a grand total of only 10,885 square miles. More heartening was word that Germany would like to cut in with Britain on the forthcoming U. S.-British trade agreement. Germany would take what U. S. and Dominions raw materials Britain could not absorb, pay the British for it with German machinery...
Last week not Senator Sheppard's Committee but a Federal grand jury at Albuquerque, N. M. exposed the hottest WPA political scandal of the year. It indicted 73 people for using WPA as a political machine, giving work-relief preference to obedient voters, exacting political contributions from WPAsters by threats and intimidation, organizing WPA foremen and timekeepers into vote-compelling "social clubs," taking WPAsters off their work to pack a political parade and then falsifying the rolls to make it seem they had been working...
...grand jurors, said their foreman, were amazed by the evidence they heard. "It is too apparent," he said, "that too many persons seeking personal and political gains have violated legal and moral codes...
...investigate Socialist Norman Thomas' complaint about being bums-rushed out of Jersey City. (Although the State Supreme Court found against Mr. Thomas on another complaint last week, he still has the solace of a hearing against two of Boss Hague's policemen before a Federal grand jury at Newark...
...last week pressed the New Jersey Legislature to carry out an investigation of electoral funny-business in Hudson County which involved-Republicans charge-as high as 50,000 fraudulent votes in last year's gubernatorial race, and which resulted in the indictment of 108 election officials by a grand jury-only a handful of whom have yet been brought to trial by Boss Hague's Hudson County prosecutor...