Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the shoe was on the other foot. As he had requested, Congressman Thomas was called before a federal grand jury in Washington which is investigating charges that he exacted salary kickbacks from some of his office employees (TIME, Nov. 1). But, once before the jury, Parnell Thomas (who had been re-elected to Congress two days before) changed his mind. He invoked the Bill of Rights. He refused to testify on the ground that he might incriminate himself, and stalked out of the jury room...
This week the grand jury indicted Thomas and his onetime secretary, Helen Campbell, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. It charged that for five years they had padded his office payroll so that salaries paid to two fictitious employees could be routed to Thomas' bank account. Thomas was accused of 34 instances of wrongdoing. If convicted, he would be liable to a maximum sentence of 32 years in prison, $40,000 fines, or both...
...Grand Electors of France turned out last week to elect a new Council of the Republic, the government's upper house. Some came from Paris and the big cities. But the great majority were prosperous, pipe-smoking farmers. In leather gaiters and stained, shapeless hats, and smelling of the land in which they were rooted, they represented the traditional backbone of France...
...drafty halls of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace echoed last week with the whir of a thousand mechanical monsters, infernally clever and incredibly dexterous. It was the 40th National Business Show, where the booming U.S. business-machine industry proudly exhibited its newest laborsaving, cost-cutting gizmos...
...Swiss Davos, where the crocuses still bloomed and the cowbells tinkled, Bemelmans found the tuberculous rich coming again to the magic mountain from the four corners of the world. "The smoke from the disinfecting plant drifts up the side of a hill, and this Grand Hotel fashion of luxurious dying away from home is sadder than any other I have seen. The graves here lie in greater and more aching lonesomeness than soldiers' graves, in foreign lands...