Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though it may have been to undergraduate criticism in the past, Widener now has an ear to the ground, anxious to catch the murmer of a disgruntled patron. Several avenues which might provide a solution to the problem have been suggested. First is the old recommendation for personalization. Like Grand Central Station, Widener is big, moving, and impersonal, and it is difficult to add a "homey" note to a building constructed for dignity rather than coziness. A suggestion of much more practical import, however, is that the Student Council, which has shed light on previous University problems, be called...
...Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (TIME, Oct. 4), did not race to board the Presidential special. Instead, from California, he telegraphed his regret that he could not be on hand to welcome the President to his State. At Fort Peck, largest earth dam in the world as Grand Coulee is the largest concrete-the President amiably gave credit to Senator James E. Murray and Representative James F. O'Connor and Jerry J. O'Connell for helping to develop Montana's water-resources, but Senator Wheeler was not mentioned...
Forceful, champagne-swizzling President KamĊl Atatürk has his heroic occupation listed in the British Who's Who as "Renovator of Turkey." Last week Istanbul's usually authoritative newsorgan Tan declared that when the Grand National Assembly meets November 1, Renovator KamĊl Atatürk is going to change the Turkish Constitution radically and order new elections held. Promptly KamĊl Atatürk cracked down on Tan for "disseminating false news likely to cause harm to the State," punished the paper by suspending it for ten days, succeeded...
...church, making it a shrine near which today is a Memorial Museum containing such relics as his "mourner's bench" and his wife Sarah's reputed corset. Last week in the dining hall adjoining these holy spots, Negroes sang hymns, ate ice cream & cake at a "Grand Educational and Sesquicentennial Concert and Social." The African Methodist Episcopal Church was celebrating the 150th anniversary of its existence, which it dates from the time that Richard Allen left the white Methodist Church...
...celebrations at the Waldorf gave evidence that after three more years its staff and management were at least happy together. In the Empire Room for three days there was an exhibition of 300 pieces of art work and craftsmanship by Waldorf employes, and on the third night the grand ballroom swirled until 2 a. m. with 1,600 bellboys, maids, clerks, stenographers, waiters and pressagents. making merry to the strains of two slick orchestras under President Boomer's genial...