Word: granted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis is, of course, a Negro but not a darky. I expect Mr. Louis would much rather be dubbed "nigger," than darky. The word "nigger" dees mean something; darky is nothing at all. . . My dear father was at Shiloh with General Grant April...
Holiday (Katharine Hepburn, Gary Grant, Edward Everett Horton; TIME, June...
...shrewd. 58-year-old, Carolina-born, W. (for William) Harllee Branch, a Washington news correspondent who, after 30 years in news paper work from typesetting to editing, became executive assistant to Postmaster General Farley in 1933. Only airline executive named to the Authority was 34-year-old Socialite George Grant Mason Jr., foreign representative of Pan American Airways in charge of Caribbean service. Iowa-born, New York-bred. Fourth Authority member is Mormon-born Democrat Robert Hinckley, assistant WPA administrator for Far Western States and supervisor of considerable WPA airport and airway project work. Fifty-year-old Indiana Republican Oswald...
...Raised passenger coach fares for Eastern railroads from 2? to 2½? a mile. Having refused this grant three months ago, the Interstate Commerce Commission reversed itself in keeping with the Government's broad policy of being as lenient as possible with the hard-pressed roads. But the new fares mean only an estimated rise of $32,000,000 in yearly income for the roads involved, only a slight aid since the Eastern roads are losing about $13,000,000 a month...
...Silver Magnet Grant Shepherd does not answer these questions, or explain exactly what finally happened to the mine. Midway through his book he begins to write less about the lost pleasures of Batopilas, and more about long vacations, about sprees, about squabbles with mean-spirited natives, about the petty thievery among workmen, the stupidity of newcomers, the pusillanimity of the Wilson administration, etc. His story becomes a monotonous recital of how the Shepherd brothers put tough customers in their places, of his political opinions and longings for good days long-past. But if its final impression is one of confusion...