Word: grosjean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Emlen Knight Davies, 22, daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies by his first wife, Emlen Knight; and Robert Leon Grosjean, 30, Belgian banker's son; at the home of her brother-in-law, Senator Millard E. Tydings; in Havre de Grace...
When Huey Long was an emerging backwoods politician, he acquired a secretary and a favorite in petite, 16-year-old Alice Lee Grosjean. Now 33 and an apparently permanent fixture on Louisiana's payroll, Alice Lee was last fortnight demoted from her $7,500 job as Collector of Revenue to a $5,000 job as State Supervisor of Public Funds. Last week she was suddenly fired. Few days later her husband, William Allen Tharpe, was dropped from his $5,000 job as secretary of the State Tax Commission. Other Grosjean relatives on the payroll trembled. Longster Grosjean had evidently...
...unconstitutional but historically unsound. Last autumn three U. S. District Court judges sitting at Baton Rouge found for the publishers on the discrimination plea presented by Lawyer Esmond Phelps, a New Orleans Times-Picayune director, passed over Lawyer Deutsch's libertarian thesis. When Public Account Supervisor Alice Lee Grosjean took the case to Washington, however, Lawyer Elisha Hanson was assigned to urge the freedom-of-the- press angle. His brief substantially followed Lawyer Deutsch's original. So, to everyone's surprise, did Associate Justice George Sutherland's opinion, which threw the Louisiana...
Another overpublicized nonentity in the Long entourage was Alice Lee Grosjean Terrel Tharpe, whose pretty eyes flowed freely outside the Dictator's hospital room door while he fought for life. At 18 she started as Long's private secretary. He made her Secretary of State, later State Supervisor of Public Accounts, handling millions, her records immune to audit. Her power with the Kingfish arose from a personal relationship. No sooner was he dead than more potent lieutenants began planning to oust her in favor of Long's brother Earl...
...Alfred Grosjean of Pasadena invented a sharp-angled violin, which is tuned three musical steps higher than an ordinary violinand and which he says reproduces the "celestial" or "seraphic" tones of ancient instruments. He calls it a "violaeol," a word made up from violin and aeolian. Miss Violet Sheldon was interested...