Word: minore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroaders last week came many a piece o'f news. Of the new developments, major and minor, in railroad affairs, these stood...
Grundy on the Constitution. Recalled to the witness stand was Joseph R. Grundy, archlobbyist from Pennsylvania (TIME, Nov. 4). A minor political war developed between him and committee members (Arkansas' Caraway; Idaho's Borah, Montana's Walsh, Wisconsin's Blaine) when it was found that he had previously filed a statement in which this appeared...
...Grand Jury promptly certified their behavior to Justice Peyton Gordon of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Justice Gordon owes his recent elevation to the bench in no small part to the good newspaper treatment he received when, as U. S. District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of the oil scandals (TIME, March 12, 1928). No man to let past favors interfere with the course of justice, Judge Gordon found the three newsgatherers in contempt, sentenced them to 45 days in jail, denied them bond. The Times prepared to pay them double salaries during their imprisonment. Its lawyers...
...encouraging private trading in fish and caviar" 14 minor Soviet officials were shot at Astrakhan, since their villainy had resulted in a sales loss of $4,500,000 to the Government Seafood Trust. One hundred and nine accomplices in this orgy of "CounterRevolution" (highest Soviet crime) were sentenced to imprisonment...
Other critics explain the vogue of Modigliani as that of an essentially minor painter who led a pathetic life in a romantic quarter of Paris, died young under unusual circumstances, painted startlingly and individually if not well, was handsome...