Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer U. S. prosecutors and a staff of G-Men checked up the La Follette revelations, persuaded a Federal grand jury at Frankfort to indict a formidable list which last week was reduced by death, illness, and nolle prosequi to the following: the Harlan County Coal Operators Association; 20 coal companies, 22 executives; 22 former or present Harlan County peace officers, including Sheriff (now ex-Sheriff) Theodore Middleton, who had told Senator La Follette "a lot of violence has been committed by my deputies." Last week Mr. Middleton and his co-defendants jammed a good portion of the tiny...
...Passport Bureau in Manhattan for 50 blank passports. Fräulein Hofmann, a hairdresser on the German liner Europa, was allegedly his accomplice, in a capacity, for which nature had not fitted her, of lure. On the strength of its coup, the Department of Justice asked for a grand jury investigation. Leading witness was to be a Manhattan doctor, Ignatz T. Griebl...
Opposite Vag was another granite wall, rising as steeply from the valley floor as the walls of a room. The vast expanse of bare rock, which swept upward with breath-taking rapidity, was as ponderously grand as the earth itself. Crowning the cliff was an abrupt line of forest; and Vag could imagine wandering into it. Here were no scrub-by pines with long dusty-green needles--mere chaparral growth such as covered the foot--hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above...
Disney,*Okla., a string of shacks and saloons thrown up on the site of PWA's $20,000,000 Grand River Dam, last week held its first mayoralty election. Candidates were a sad-eyed grocer named Mrs. Vera Silar, who stood for law & order, and a buxom ex-cowgirl named Billy Baker, who stood for fun & frolic. Idea was to give each boss woman 30 days to try out her ideas, then incorporate under whichever regime Disney liked best. When Disney's Commercial Club tried to limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker...
Only the men who have made the team by firing in two or more matches and firing a counting score in at least one of them are eligible to take part in the grand finale...