Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works. The Governor swore out a criminal libel warrant against Mr. O'Hara, and later when Mr. O'Hara refused to surrender the management of the track, sent 300 militiamen to close Narragansett Park. In rapid succession Mr. O'Hara was indicted by a Federal grand jury for excessive political contributions, was warned by the Internal Revenue Bureau that he and his wife owed the Government $33,000 in income taxes...
...less than sheer joy in his latest attempt at trustbusting. For nine months early this year Lawyer Jackson's department investigated the operations of the four big auto-financing companies owned by or connected with automobile manufacturers. Last September it began presenting its evidence to a special Federal grand jury in Milwaukee. Last week, just when it seemed certain that the grand jury would crack down on the companies, the Government's efforts came a cropper...
...C.I.T.'s subsidiary, Universal Credit Corp. (for Ford). Last year these four handled 75% of all new car financing (TIME, Nov. 22). According to the Department of Justice, their monopolistic methods cost the public $60,000,000. Having listened to evidence from 263 witnesses in Milwaukee, a Federal grand jury last week was ready to announce its findings when crusty Federal Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger suddenly post-poned them. Judge Geiger in his 25 years on the bench has become known as one judge who will tolerate no legal shenanigans. Last week he had just got wind of considerable...
...took union members a year of rehearsals, threaded between sewing hours, to get Pins and Needles in shape. Staged in a remodeled Manhattan cinema house, with an amateur cast and two grand pianos for orchestra, its rollicking satire made critics agree that I. L. G. W. U. members were class-conscious but not grim about it, that their show was funnier and faster than many a Broadway revue...
...probably the world's toughest management problem-how to run efficiently an industrial enterprise employing some 200,000 men and $1,800,000,000 in total assets. Last week in the august atmosphere of its headquarters at No. 71 Broadway, Manhattan, another move was made in the grand administration plans which Chairman Taylor hopes to complete before he turns the company over to Chairman-elect Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. next April. A new subsidiary, U. S. Steel Corp, of Delaware, was created solely as a management corporation. After the turn of the year, this corporation will be governed...