Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under constant hammering from Stryker, Chambers admitted perjuring himself seven times before the grand jury in October. Actually the perjury was the same one seven times repeated: his early denial that he and any of the people whom he had named were actually in an espionage plot. They were merely infiltrating to places of importance, he had said...
...several projects in various stages of completion. Sometimes they are delayed by ecclesiastics who have strenuously differing views about how a church should be decorated. But the work of Father Couturier is finding growing support among his fellow churchmen and also among such anticlericals as Henri Matisse, the grand old man of French painting. Said Matisse thoughtfully last week: "Father Couturier is a sensitive, intelligent and capable man. He is very active, very imaginative, and is currently doing a great deal...
...Atlanta, a bigoted little obstetrician named Samuel Green, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, was frantically exhorting his Kleagles and Cyclops to mass for a big night of cross-burning and hate-spieling at Stone Mountain next week to prove to everybody that his movement wasn't on the skids. But one Southern governor had denounced the Klan, without suffering for it, as a mob of "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities...
...Court. Only 25 miles from Picky Pie's murder, a federal grand jury last week indicted seven men for beating a Negro, and a deputy sheriff for letting them do it. Occasional cowardly attacks on Negroes still took place in the back country, but more & more such cases were winding up in the courts...
...papers keep hammering away. Last April, when baby-faced Reporter Don Petit of the News told his managing editor that he had some inside tips on Miami racketeering, he got the go-ahead. The Petit crusade was well-timed: a new grand jury was starting to investigate gambling and alleged police protection. For three weeks, Newsman Petit vanished from the city room into the underworld...