Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter of Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg, were surprised to hear of her marriage to Edward Pfeiffer, Trade Extension Bureau Manager of True Story Magazine. This was the second time in two weeks that lively Betty Vandenberg, who year ago made her debut as a pianist with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, contrived to make news. Last fortnight, she was the central figure in a de luxe musicale given by her father at the Sulgrave Club in honor of his own 54th birthday. The Vandenberg guest list of 300 included, as well as two Supreme Court Justices, half...
...Japanese "grand push," launched ten weeks ago to capture the Chinese "Hindenburg Line" and the strategic Lung-hai Railway, was still stalled last week on the banks of the Grand Canal in southern Shantung Province, 35 miles northeast of Suchow. Fast-striking Chinese guerilla units, employing shifting flank attacks, last week struck at all sides of the Japanese forces, spread out in a rough quadrangle in the Shantung area. Towns were taken, then recaptured as neither side made an effort to hold positions for long. Chinese guerillas tore up sections along 40 miles of the Tientsin-Pukow railway...
...expropriation $400,000,000 worth of oil properties owned by U. S. and British citizens (TIME, March 28). The game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...
Month and a half ago. however, a Federal grand jury brought in indictments against John W. Gilliland, president of Bell General Pipe Line Co. of Gladewater, and 24 others, most of them employes of Bell General and its subsidiaries. Bell General is considered the largest independent pipe line in the East Texas field, which indicated the Connally Act was at last to be invoked in earnest. By last week 23 of the 25 had posted bond. One of the other two was variously reported as being in Spain and the Samoa Islands...
Last week hundreds of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket holders were looking forward to rich rewards from the Grand National. In Midland, Ont.. a pious Protestant churchgoer named Mrs. Charles Fenton tore up a ticket worth $4,950. Her husband had bought it in her name. Mrs. Fenton thought this was plain gambling, and Mr. Fenton, gloomily agreeing, spent some of his own hard-earned money cabling the Irish Sweepstakes to keep...