Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done so well during the campaign as boss pro tern (TIME, Dec. 14). A banquet was given for Fred Bellemere, chairman of Kansas City's election board and he was mentioned as a sure-fire future prospect for Governor. Then suddenly in mid-December Judge Reeves impaneled a grand jury of 20 men. Instead of saying, "Everybody is doing it, let it pass," he said to them...
...work. Thus it was a fine organization which Tom Pendergast handed over to his nephew James.- The various indictments charged local election officials with fraudulent vote counts, erasing and changing ballots; a precinct captain was indicted for intimidating a grand jury witness. The grand jury recounted the ballots and got quite different results from those reported by the officials. Typical contrast in one of the many precincts...
...Grand Jury count...
...During the cycle of Depression his famed "Three-Year Budgets'' have always balanced with a surplus and Hyderabad taxes have not been raised. Sir Akbar's system is to have an annual accounting of each Government Department provisionally, but to carry forward to a so-called "Grand Accounting" only every three years. He will close the books of Hyderabad's present financial triennium Oct. 5, 1937, including such comparatively recent items as $65,000 to the Memorial Fund for King George V, $25.000 for Hyderabad broadcasting equipment, $12,000 to victims of the Quetta earthquake...
...became a history instructor three years after graduation. He was a full professor by 1919, when Woodrow Wilson drafted him for the Paris Peace Conference. He headed the U. S. Commission's Austro-Hungarian division and returned to Yale full of glory. When the University's Grand Old Man, Arthur Twining Hadley, resigned in 1921, Charles Seymour was boomed for the presidency. But he was then only 36 and in those days no Hutchins, Frank or Conant had arisen to dispel the prejudice against presidential youth...