Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parade. At play the Legion is formidable. On parade it is impressive. Leading off the nine-hour grand march last week were the delegations from U. S. possessions and territories. Honor of heading the state contingents went to Arizona for the year's percentage of increased memership. The Floridians marched behind a bathing beauty carrying a stuffed alligator. The Nebraskans had a cowhand with a lariat. Assistant Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring led the Kansans, decked with their native sunflowers. The lowans startled the crowd by parading under a mass of tall cornstalks. The parade was not without...
Japan winds up this week her Grand Naval Maneuvers and sea exercises of all sorts which have been going on since July 20. In the first phase, "fleet training.'' nobody was killed. In the second phase, "target practice," seven sailors met Death in a turret fire aboard the cruiser Ashigara. Then the fleet disappeared for five weeks of Grand Maneuvers in North Pacific waters...
...worry," a Japanese naval official privately told one U. S. correspondent. "The appropriation for our Grand Maneuvers was only 6,270,000 yen [$1,800,000]-not nearly enough to buy fuel for a cruise to anywhere near your waters...
Japanese newsorgans, barred from headlining Grand Maneuvers, last week gave the Baer-Louis fight the biggest play ever received by a U. S. prizefight in Japan, emphasized with satisfaction that the man who won is colored...
...will do in the future for material to satisfy the public's new hunger for classic singing remains vague but pictures like Here's To Romance make it seem likely that before long the cinema, if only by exhausting the supply of arias, will create its own grand opera...