Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, N. Y. for the weekend went Squire Franklin Roosevelt. There he viewed 42 new acres he had bought, off Cream Street on the edge of town, since his last trip home. That evening he was host to royalty: Prince Louis Ferdinand Hohenzollern and his bride, the former Grand Duchess Kyra Romanoff. When he took them to church on Sunday morning, he was tickled by a parable read by the Rev. Frank R. Wilson. It was an essay by a school girl on Manhattan's East Side. Its subject: "True greatness." Its text...
...Seymour Whitman, who in 1915, after convicting Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal, ascended from D. A. to Governor in one swift vault. Should Tom Dewey perform that feat in this day of dearth in Republican manpower, by 1940 the Party which used to be called Grand as well as Old may be glad to consider him for President...
...cups, Johnny Goodman was not hopeless. Bobby Jones, too, had been eliminated before the semi-finals in the 1926 British Amateur which his Walker Cup teammate Jess Sweetser finally won. In fact, Bobby Jones failed three times before finally winning it in 1930, the year he made his famed "Grand Slam" (British Amateur, British Open, U. S. Amateur, U. S. Open). Goodman could still try for the British Open next month to prove that he is currently the U. S. golfing king of swing...
...Waterbury comptroller, Daniel J. Leary, lost an election to Republican Sherwood L. Rowland by 33 votes. Republican Comptroller Rowland took a good look at the accounts of the eight-year Hayes regime, called in State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Attorney Alcorn took another look, called in a grand jury...
Last week, the grand jury handed down a scandalous 20,000-word report. It charged that "millions of dollars" of Waterbury money had been spent in an illegal manner since 1930. Bench warrants were issued for the arrest for fraud of Lieutenant Governor Hayes, ex-Comptroller Leary, 24 of their henchmen and associates, including the State Commissioner of Statute Revision, several State Senators. The "rampant corruption" of which they were accused: cashing unnumbered city checks, spending city funds without vouchers, splitting fees with contractors for imaginary services, bribing State legislators (notably to get a law passed requiring...