Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York began to erupt with one scandal after another concerning his administration. His closest political sidekick, James J. Moran, was found guilty of engineering a huge fire department shakedown of oil-burner dealers-a shakedown which netted millions. Convicted Brooklyn Bookie Harry Gross told of paying off whole platoons of New York cops during the O'Dwyer era, and charged that Moran had once called a pre-election meeting of O'Dwyer and the city's top bookies...
There is but one group of students, in fact, a minority if they exist at all, who have no complaint coming. These are the undergraduates whose activity evokes what University Hall fears most--gross immorality, lurid beadlines, and the demise or desecration of the Good Name. The latest ordinance need not worry these people, for it is only the privilege itself, and not its extent, that concerns them...
Oscar R. Ewing, head of the Federal Security Agency, left New York's Idlewild Airport on an eight-week, government-financed, round-the-world trip for a series of social welfare conferences in India, despite the protest of Republican Representative H. R. Gross of Iowa. Gross, who thought the junket was flying pretty high for a lame-duck agency boss likely to be replaced a few days after his return, wrote President Truman insisting that the trip be canceled. The answer came at the White House press conference last week: the Ewing trip was none of Gross...
...write in the full realization that a great deal of work is necessary that a paper such as yours might competently serve the University community. Discrepancies are bound to occur, granted, but this hardly serves to explain such a gross misrepresentation of the facts as appeared in last Saturday's edition. I refer to an article covering the intramural freshman football competition, won this fall by a team from Mower Hall...
...seats in the legislature but 1 (One) as against 4 of the BHE. When Mr. John J. McCloy says that this party together with some other right-wing parties "create a potential danger to all those that value democratic principles" he is undoubtedly correct. However, it would be a gross underestimation of the democratic forces now at work in Germany, and I am convinced that after a successful restoration of the social and economic conditions in both Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein Germany is quite capable of dealing with people that "still look back on the day of Hitler with...