Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found" one of the ransom notes under Brother Cash's store door, 2) he remarked how easy it would be to break into their house. They told Sheriff Coleman, who trapped McCall in a fake alibi and turned him over...
...acting through Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, lodged a protest with Tokyo against the bombing of Lingnan University, and the French Government sent a stiff protest against the attack on the French hospital, both of which were politely filed away by the Tokyo Foreign Office. Japan's real reaction was, as usual, expressed by the Navy. In Shanghai, the chief of the Navy's Press Department. Rear Admiral Kiyoshi Noda, announced that Japanese aerial bombardments would continue. He expressed "satisfaction with the progress of military operations" to date and assured that "our aviators are doing their best to avoid...
...Cash made the "contact" on a lonely road. He handed a shoe box containing $10,000 worth of marked $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills to a man with a flashlight. The man promised "Skeegie" would be returned promptly. As that day and the next passed, the Princeton crowds grew ugly. They began going out in posses to beat the tangled Florida bushland, to comb coastal bayous, jungled keys...
...Trinitarian Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Over the objections of many Protestants and Catholics, Unitarians call themselves Christians because they believe in the divinity (but hot deity) and the teachings of a human Jesus Christ. Unitarianism made its appearance in the Christian world in the 16th Century, grew in the U. S. in the 18th Century, became a loosely organized faith in 1825. U. S. Unitarians are proud that Ellsworth Huntington, in The Character of Races, proved that in proportion to their small numbers (at present, 61,000) Unitarians had produced more U. S. leaders than any other sect...
Speyer & Co. was founded in Manhattan in 1837. Its reputation grew as it sold U. S. securities in Germany during the Civil War, as it handled railroad reorganizations, as it floated the first loan to-Cuba. In 1885, James Speyer, after being bound apprentice to the family firms in Paris, London, Frankfurt, went to the U. S. firm. For at least the past 30 years he has run it in an arbitrary, single-minded fashion. He floated a vast amount of foreign loans, financed railroads, built power plants in Manila and a railroad in Bolivia. But the War upset...