Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Jarecki was still in charge of county election officers, and when vote counters finished their work last week, it showed that Messrs. Kelly & Nash had for the first time been roundly defeated-508,000-to-466,000-on their home ground. Net significance was a possibility that when Mr. Nash comes up for re-election as county Democratic chairman next week, he may be defeated; and that whether he is defeated or not, the Kelly-Nash machine-biggest and most powerful municipal political organization in the land since the defeat of Tammany-was definitely no longer anything...
Bradley & Murphy. Month ago desperate Robert Young went to Judge Coxe's district court in Manhattan, got a temporary stay restraining Guaranty from exercising voting rights on Chesapeake Corp. stock on the ground that before the end of the 30-day period of grace after the Feb. 1 appraisal the collateral back of one bond issue momentarily went above the 150% figure and also on the ground that Guaranty was acting in bad faith. Judge Coxe later refused a permanent injunction, so resourceful Robert Young appealed to Judge Manton of the Circuit Court of Appeals, got another temporary stay...
...keeping his feet on the ground," Alfred Mossman Landon, Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 Presidential opponent, received Judge Magazine's "High Hat" award. Cracked he: "I am not as famous as a humorist as some others who have received this award*-particularly the author of that well-known gag, 'We are on our way back because we planned it that way.' " Few days later, when Citizen Landon was asked what he thought of Author...
...hour's train ride from Trondheim, in central Norway, is Hell, a tiny hamlet (pop. 1,465) which thrives on U. S. excursionists who have fun sending home Hell-marked postcards.† Situated on hilly ground, Hell (the Norwegian word for luck or slope) maintains two churches but no fire department, has cool summers, bitterly cold winters, sometimes freezes over completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions...
...lucky fellow who finds "a power of music" in everything from rubber bands to squeaking shoes, but especially in jugs. His powerful ambition is to be a showboat musician. Mrs. Penny's ambition, more powerful than Willow Joe's, is to get a home on solid ground and be respectable. So Willow Joe grits his teeth and builds cabins, which floods always wash away. But when hard times come, Mrs. Penny lets him go to work on a dilapidated showboat...