Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lined up mostly zealous New Dealers and freshmen Senators. Pat Harrison, on the other hand, is one of the best-liked Senators. Behind him lined up most of the anti-Roosevelt Democrats who knew he was a conservative at heart, and seasoned Senators to whom Pat Harrison is a grand old guy. Being as loyal as Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison has stood by the President, even unto the Supreme Court Bill, but not with vociferous enthusiasm. Thus both contenders were in favor of the Court Bill, and to ask the President to accept Pat Harrison...
...accepted by the King, and this tactical sop to opponents of Amnesty foreshadowed a period of political haggling, possible compromise and modification of the law. Brussels wiseacres agreed that the hard-headed Belgian public has been totally unimpressed, one way or the other, by Premier van Zeeland's grand transatlantic mission. They consider that M. & Mme van Zeeland have had harmless White House fun, that their Premier must now once more devote himself exclusively to Belgium's earnest knitting...
...Dared (Grand National). Anna Sten in the pallid role of a Russian nursemaid employed by the wife of her lover (Henry Wilcoxon...
Awarded. To Nikola Tesla, famed Croatian-born inventor of electrical equipment (Tesla induction motor, Tesla coil, Tesla transformer): Yugoslavia's Grand Order of the White Eagle and Czechoslovakia's Order of the White Lion, top honors of those two nations; by their U. S. Ministers; on Dr. Tesla's 80th (or 81st) * birthday, in Manhattan. As is his birthday custom, Dr. Tesla received the press and announced a series of new marvels, including an apparatus "by which energy in considerable amounts can now be flashed through interstellar space"-but no models, no drawings, no equations...
Navigator Noonan's wife was cheered when she received some photographs from her husband, mailed weeks ago from the Far East. There was also a letter. Excerpt: "Amelia is a grand person for such a trip. She is the only woman flyer I would care to make such a trip with because in addition to being a fine companion she can take hardship as well as a man?and work like...