Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like harvest time in the wheat belt, like the fishing season on the Grand Banks, the opening of the dressmaking season is, to Paris, a business event. Last week by boat, train and plane sharp-eyed buyers piled into the city to attend the official autumn & winter openings of the great dress houses, openings that came so thick & fast that exhausted buyers had scarcely time for more than a foot bath, a glass of tea and a herring between engagements all week long. At the most popular house of all, Schiaparelli, on the Place Vendôme, department store executives...
...unmentioned in Cairo dispatches last week was the de facto ruler of Egypt, moose-tall and tolerant Sir Miles Lampson. He used to be the British High Commissioner in Cairo, became the British Ambassador as soon as Egypt and England set up their recent "alliance." Sir Miles is a grand surviving figure in the Victorian tradition of Bearing the White Man's Burden, spreading the Pax Britannica and generally wiping the noses of people like the Egyptians. Almost nobody disputes that half a century of British dominance in Egypt, more or less disguised, has acted as the greatest graft...
...Kings County grand jury failed to indict the three for murder. Nine months later, after the non-indictment had caused an election scandal, New York's Governor Herbert Lehman ordered a special grand jury investigation. Out of a sensational welter of charges of racketeering, political corruption, jury-tampering & bribery came murder indictments against the Luckmans and Hull. On Feb. 20, 1936 all were convicted of second degree murder, sentenced to prison for 20 years to life. Because Hull's lawyer, Brooklyn's Joseph A. Solovei, had been absent from court during the first days of the trial...
...active membership drive for 10,000 members as a subdivision of Equity. Presided over by energetic Lawrence Tibbett, the independent American Guild of Musical Artists, is currently hoping that the A. A. A. A. will offer its patronage and simultaneously revoke the charter of the Musical Artists' rival Grand Opera Association...
...automobile sales this reduction by itself might appear small comfort to an old and long stagnant motor-maker. But the true state of Hupp was discernible last week not in its profit & loss account but in the balance sheet and in its big plant off Detroit's East Grand Boulevard. In both of these stagnation lurked no longer...