Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murfreesboro, Ark. courtroom a Negro named Charles Gentry, charged with murder, sat down for trial before a jury of his peers, found himself looking into twelve faces black as his own. Before testimony began his white lawyer pleaded unsuccessfully for dismissal of the charge because a white grand jury voted his black client's indictment. Sixty-five minutes after the testimony was completed and the State had made a plea for the death penalty, the twelve Negro sawmill workers found Negro Gentry guilty of slaying Negro Jasper Evans, sentenced him to five years. No one in Murfreesboro could recall...
...spotlessly neat, secure against all intrusions, symbolizes perfectly her own empty meanness. Craig submits peacefully when forbidden to smoke in doors, entertain his friends or go out for an evening of poker. He even smiles indulgently when Mrs. Craig runs his aunt out of the house, insults a friendly grand mother who lives next door and drives the servants into giving notice. It is a long worm which has no turning. Walter Craig's rebellion starts when an accident makes it unmistakably clear that his wife would rather see him accused of murder than let herself be touched...
...home runs, an average of more than one for each game, nine more than the record set by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1932. It set a new major-league record of 992 runs batted in for the season. Five players drove in more than 100 runs each. A grand total of 1,065 runs just missed an-other all-time high. With Gehrig, Dickey, Di Maggio, Selkirk, Crosetti and Lazzeri in the lineup, the Yankees appear to be the hardest-hitting team in the history of modern baseball. Last week they were 2-to-1 favorites to beat an adversary...
List. President Fleming had no monopoly on good temper. Off the convention floor the delegates were cheered by a round of festivities including two boat rides around San Francisco Bay, a grand banquet and ball at the Palace Hotel, a golf tournament at the Olympic Club's Lakeside course. Amadeo Giannini's Bank of America, biggest U. S. bank west of Manhattan, outdid itself in the matter of hospitality. To each of the bankers' ladies on the night of the formal ball, Bank of America sent a corsage of two orchids. To each of the bankers...
...came order". It may sound like Professor Merriman in one of his more expansive moments, but today its application is to the Houses' rather than Europe's history. For years the Houses have been taxing each other's resources by policies of ruthless competition, culminating last year in a grand debacle, with Houses sponsoring dances with "big name" orchestras cheek by jowl with one another undercutting freely, and using high-pressure advertising tactics...