Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walker out of town. Despite these periodic spasms of civic indignation, crime marched on, burgeoning throughout the null into a new kind of super-crime, the racket, which no state or city authority seemed able or willing to attack. "Runaway" Jury, In March 1935 a New York County (Manhattan) grand jury assembled which was to become famed in the press as the "runaway" jury. Honest citizens, its members were appalled by the tales of racketeering terror and extortion which witnesses told them, infuriated by their failure to get action from the district attorney, Tammanyman William...
...district attorney be superseded by a special prosecutor of rackets. Impressed, Governor Lehman named four well-known lawyers, including Charles Evans Hughes Jr., asked that one of them take the job. Unanimously they turned it down, unanimously told the Governor that the man he wanted was one the grand jury wanted, young Thomas Edmund Dewey. Governor Lehman hesitated. Lawyer Dewey had made a brilliant crime-fighting record as Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney, capped when he sent notorious Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler to prison for ten years on income tax charges. But he had since retired to private practice...
...publicity for Oursler and Mr. Macfadden. . . . "I feel sure that it was Mr. Oursler's intention, with his great influence over Mr. Macfadden-which at times borders on hypnotism-to persuade Mr. Macfadden to pay any large or fabulous reward for the child's return, as a grand gesture which would appeal to the public and prove Mr. Macfadden as a great philanthropist, etc so Oursler had a double motive for the crime, the great publicity for Mr. Macfadden . . . also . . . the large reward paid by Mr. Macfadden. . . ." To this citation, Mrs. Macfadden's attorneys interposed a general...
...America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded by Manhattan (Tabloid Suite), New Orleans (Mardi Gras), Hollywood (Hollywood Suite). It includes scenic wonders (Grand Canyon Suite} and clanging industry (Symphony in Steel). Last week a Carnegie Hall audience heard all these works played by a 40-piece orchestra headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe's own jazzy, tuneful, descriptive music, as well...
Embarrassed was Mr. Reyburn to find that both the first and second prize winners were his own employes-in Manhattan's Lord & Taylor, an Associated subsidiary. Mr. Reyburn, grand old man of retailing, admitted to the beaming audience that his secretary had warned him without telling why that it might all look "dangerously like racketeering...