Word: grands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Grand Haven, Mich...
...that they had begged him to go into Pennsylvania, make a speech, help them win. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court had put Earle on a spot by declaring unconstitutional two Earle acts in evasion of grave graft charges against his administration: 1) giving his heavily Democratic legislature priority over grand juries in such cases; 2) suspending a grand jury investigation. These decisions made it certain that the "scandal" issue against Mr. Earle & friends would stay alive & kicking till election day. With the Republican ticket headed by Senator James...
...sessions of the Fascist Grand Council, members are encouraged, even forced, to criticize the policies of the Government...
After that the Dictator, who has silently digested the views of Fascist best minds, gets up and makes a declaration, telling his Grand Council and every Italian what is going to be what. Last week this process took five hours. When the locked doors of the Grand Council finally opened at 2:30 a. m., it was to disclose new and still more selective decrees in Italian Fascism's already highly selective policy of antiSemitism. There shall be no discrimination, decreed the Grand Council, against Italian Jews of the following seven categories...
...selective principle is a novelty in Mussolini antiSemitism, but the Fascist Grand Council went on to issue decrees revealing something different, namely that 11 Duce-quite apart from Jewish questions-wishes to fire Italians with the concept of the "Italian race." Reason: He believes Italians can never be successful Empire builders unless they feel as superior as the most superior Briton feels...