Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a sub-committee of the House Military Affairs Committee after secret hearings, called upon Secretary of War Dern to oust General Foulois for "dishonesty . . . gross misconduct ... inefficiency . . . inaccuracy . . . unreliability . . . incompetency . . . mismanagement.'' Prime charges: ¶He said he was "quite certain" his men could fly the mail, following cancellation of private contracts. ¶He "told a lie" to the committee, saying that Army mail pilots had from 30 to 60 hours night flying experience, whereas some who crashed had as little as 8 hours. ¶He persistently violated the law in buying planes by direct negotiation instead...
...Class Day officers are as follows: M. A. Shattuck, R. Cobb. D. A. Freeman, P. Zach, F. W. Hatch. G. D. Flynn, H. McA. Lloyd, M. Phinney, G. A. Brownell, F. Parkman, G. C. Barelay, R. M. Gross, H. C. Flower. C. Canfield, C. A. Clark, Jr., and L. K. Garrison...
...Francis Gross, a retired Catholic priest of Perth Amboy, N. J., mopped his thick jowls in the torrid committee room as he told of an anti-Semitic pamphlet he had written called "Justice to Hungary, Germany and Austria." When his printer dunned him. Father Gross wrote him that none other than the Reich's Ambassador at Washington, Dr. Hans Luther, was his "sponsor, financial backer and promoter.'' The German Embassy, said Father Gross, had purchased 100 copies of his pamphlets at 70? each. The German Embassy retorted: ''It goes without saying that the German Ambassador...
...with Papa Dionne about exhibiting the quintuplets at the Century of Progress. Promoter Spears flew to Orillia, Ont. Papa Dionne motored there with Father Routhier in the Parishhouse Ford. The offer: $100 per week as an option until the quintuplets can be put on show. Thereafter 30% of the gross side show receipts go to the Dionnes, another 7% to Father Routhier. But Dr. Dafoe objected: "They are not going to be moved from here...
...lines tell the story. The supply index is based on the American Iron & Steel Institute's published statistics of ingot production. The demand index, which anticipates the trend of actual consumption up to three months, is calculated on figures from steel's customers-automobiles, railroads, building, oil. Gross railroad income furnishes a clue to probable purchases of rails and equipment. Building permits and contract awards hint at that industry's future steel buying. If the spread between the supply and demand indices is growing unfavorable, inventories must be piling up in some one's warehouses...