Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flanked by their advisers, the rival generals maneuvered from headquarters two miles apart. G. M.'s Knudsen in the big General Motors Building on Grand Boulevard West, U. A. W.'s Martin in the Hofmann Building on downtown Woodward Avenue. Their battlefield was the whole U. S. As the week began. 14 G. M. plants had been closed or crippled by U. A. W. "sitdown" strikes, throwing 40,600 employes out of work. When the week ended, 28 plants and 93,000 out of a total 135,000 production employes were idle...
...autocratic, aristocratic Dutch way of putting over a royal wedding was a great tribute to the abilities of Premier Hendrikus Colijn. He is imperious, stuffy, vigorous and wise. Her Majesty was pleased last week to confer upon Premier Colijn the highest decoration in Queen Wilhelmina's gift, the Grand Cross of the Order of The Netherlands Lion...
...could doubt the Geological Sur vey cr Painter Thomas Moran. When he came back from the Yellowstone with a tremendous canvas of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone seen through a romantic mist. Congress voted $10,000 to buy it and hung the canvas in the Senate Lobby, where it is today. In 1872 Yellowstone Valley became the first National Park, and Thomas Moran acquired the nickname that stuck to him for the rest of his life: Thomas ("Yellowstone") Moran...
This year's president is one of Princeton's Grand Old Men, Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin. Retiring president is Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, who is also the President of M. I. T. and a brother of Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton...
Great Guy (Grand National) is James Cagney's first picture for the up & coming young production company whose No. 1 box-office attraction he became after he broke with Warner Bros, last year. As such, it goes a long way to disprove the Hollywood theory that, given a free hand in selecting stories and casts, an actor's vanity is sure to lead him astray. Great Guy is vintage Cagney, exhibiting him at all the shoulder-punching and sotto voce wisecracking on which was founded his reputation as the cinema's No. i mick...