Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Smith was praised on the East coast by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University, who called him a "high type." Candidate Smith was praised on the West coast by Novelist Gertrude Atherton, great grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, who, addressing her fellow Californians before the crucial May Day primary, said: "Smith is the only man who has any human appeal. . . . He is a man. He is open-minded and openhanded. He stirs the affections. He is honest and direct. He is no humbug professing all things and practicing nothing. Vote the humbugs down. Women want real men to represent...
...five must sleep in a small room. Financier Morgan was impressed by what he saw and heard, last week, but sometimes even great philanthropists are tardy about giving aid. Therefore generous and perspicacious U. S. citizens-some of modest means-sent cheques at once, last week, to the Near East Colleges Association in Manhattan which is charged with receiving contributions for the American Hospital in Constantinople...
...qualify any one to arrive at conclusions, but they have shown us the complexity and the multitude of Indian problems. Each province, in fact, has its own difficulties and their solution will not be found in a repetition of vague generalities. India is the real meeting ground of the East and West...
...flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...
...locked room at 455 East 135th Street, Manhattan, Uncle August Koehl, music teacher, composed a march for his nephew, entitled "Mitchel Field or Heaven...