Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan, better propaganda for the kind of occidentalization in which the Konoyes specialize. In the Konoye Butterfly, Pinkerton is a U. S. musician instead of a Navy lieutenant. After he reluctantly deserts Cho Cho San, she decides to be a singer, goes to the U. S. for her grand debut. Instead of a tragedy, the Konoye Butterfly, which the Viscount hopes to have photographed mostly in Japan with a Japanese actress in the title role, ends happily. Conductor of the orchestra at Cho Cho San's New York premiere is, by a happy coincidence, her old friend Pinkerton...
Convicted by an Indianapolis Federal Grand Jury of conspiracy to defraud through the mails, Clarence Joseph Morley, onetime (1925-27) Governor of Colorado, was sentenced to five years in Leavenworth Penitentiary...
Steelman Myron Taylor was again at the Grand Hotel de l'Europe. So were Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, Actor Sacha Guitry. the Bishop of Winchester, Tenor Richard Tauber. rich Mrs. Harry Guggenheim of New York. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was expected back again. In the swank Cafe Bazar and Count Alfred Salm's tearoom across the way, chatter about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's impending arrival all but submerged the news that King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold III of Belgium, Prince Umberto of Italy, the young Franklin Roosevelts were coming...
Elected. Author Charles Spencer Hart (George Washington's Son of Israel and Other Forgotten Heroes of History); to be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, succeeding David Sholtz. former Governor of Florida; in Denver...
...epidemic. They had been awarded $40 to $90 a month as compensation. In California such income sets them apart from the horde of indigents and makes them ineligible for free medical care. Unable to pay for both living and medical expenses, the 139 crippled nurses asked a Los Angeles grand jury for help. Powerless to do anything more concrete, the grand jury amplified and echoed the appeal in hopes of getting California or Federal dollars rolling toward the cripples' wheelchairs...