Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal grand jury in Los Angeles last week furnished the U. S. Press with its first convincing Spy Story in many a moon. In spite of the fact that the spy's accomplice was not a beautiful girl but, according to U. S. Attorney Peirson Hall of Los Angeles, a slender, fresh-faced young man, the yarn of the disloyal ex-sailor and the Japanese naval officer made bang-up copy...
...estate agent's sign over their door read cheerfully: "LONG LEASE FOR SALE." An army of re-furbishers was busy in Admiralty House on Whitehall, cleaning and redecorating the official residence of the First Lord. Its 20 rooms are lofty, dignified and spacious, ideal for entertaining in the grand manner of the British Admiralty...
Serving on the county grand jury in Portland, Ore. was small, spry Elias Disney, 77-year-old father of famed Walt (Mickey Mouse) Disney. Said he: "We are very proud of Walter, especially when he's a good boy. . . . How did he get started drawing? Well, he always liked to draw. There was a barber in our neighborhood who used to give Walter 25? a week for a picture, something about his barbershop. Walter was seven or eight years old then. He paid for his haircuts that way. . . . Walter is a poor hand to write. We just hear from...
With his wife Flora, his stenographer daughter Ruth, Elias Disney has lived in Portland since 1921, owns several small apartment houses. "There's not much to do around them," he complained. "It's kind of nice to get a chance to do this grand jury work for a change...
Died. Maxim Gorki (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov), 68, Red Russia's Grand Old Man of Letters; of tuberculosis and grippe; in his villa near Moscow. Turned out of his grandfather's house at 9, he became a ragpicker, a scullery boy, a sailor, bitterly described Old Russia in short stories, novels (The Outcasts, Comrades, Mother), his celebrated play The Lower Depths. Imprisoned and exiled by the Tsar on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905), he returned in 1914, served as a private in the War. He supported the moderate Kerensky regime, thunderously opposed the Bolsheviki, reluctantly accepted a Government post...