Word: granted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), of which shrewd old Heber Jedediah Grant is Prophet, Seer & Revelator, owns sugar-beet fields, banks, hotels, the oldest U. S. department store (Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, Salt Lake City). During Depression, however, Mormons felt the pinch like everyone else. By this year 88,000 of the Church's 638,000 members were on relief rolls. Last month the Mormon First Presidency, whose absolute head is Heber Grant, resolved to take the indigent Saints off relief by next Jan. 1. Revealed last week were full details...
...Wilson is on his way to marry Katharine Grant (Sylvia Sidney) when he is picked up as a suspect in a kidnap case. He is driving the same make of car as the one the kidnapper is reported to be using and is roughly of the same description as the man sought. Knowing that a lynching party is forming, the sheriff telephones for military aid which the Governor, because of political cowardice, at first refuses. By the time the Governor changes his mind, there is nothing left of the jail but a smoking ruin in which, at the flaming window...
Died. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge, 67, retired Manhattan banker, landscape artist, son of Painter John La Farge, brother of Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, Artist Bancel La Farge, Co-Editor John La Farge, S. J. of Jesuit America; in Manhattan...
...ballyhoo preceding a thrashing. This year the ballyhoo, as loud as usual, was briefer but the thrashing was identical. Rules limit each team to four men. Before the matches started, the U. S. selection committee picked Donald Budge and Wilmer Allison for the singles matches, passed over Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, who had beaten both in practice, chose Budge and Gene Mako as the U. S. doubles team. On the courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, where France won the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, Allison, whose game rarely reaches its peak till late August, proved that this year...
...largely for children, planned for the next five years, Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences held a meeting last week to discuss ways & means of raising money, invited some of the city's best brains and fattest purses. Also present were Princeton's patriarchal Zoologist Edwin Grant Conklin and Columbia's learned Paleontologist William King Gregory. Up rose Lawyer Henry Sturgis Drinker, an Academy trustee...