Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of a commission to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case, composed of President Lowell, President S. W. Stratton of M. I. T. and former Judge Robert Grant has already brought forth a storm of protest from such prominent men as T. J. Boynton, former attorney general of the Commonwealth and F. A. Goodwin, Registrar of Motor Vehicles. The former declared in an address to the alumni association of the Suffolk Law School that "there is absolutely no need for any fact finding commission in this case" and the latter declared that such action would be "a direct attack...
...President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America began a six-year term which, largely through the activities of one Ulysses Simpson Grant he was never destined to complete...
...political observers maintain that motives political as well as personal have dictated the President's proposed Western excursion. In 1870 a torchlight procession smoked down Pennsylvania Avenue, besought President Grant to have built a permanent Western White House somewhere west of the Mississippi. At the last session of Congress, Representative Dickinson of Iowa resurrected the proposal. Official Washington, including the President, is said to frown on the Western White House idea as needlessly expensive...
Long and prodding, the letter went on to discuss statutes and customs; to mention the failure of two Republicans (Grant and Roosevelt) who tried to alter custom; to refer to "your recent public rebuff to Herbert Hoover"* and the alleged embarrassment felt by other Republican presidential aspirants due to their chief's silence...
...publication of this interview prompted Federal Judge Raymond to grant the motion of the Ford attorneys for a mistrial. He dismissed the charges against Mrs. Hoffman and started contempt proceedings against the Detroit Times. Thus, it was decided that the Hearst type of journalism is a greater menace to justice than the indiscreet babbling of a woman juror...