Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsequent testimony it developed that Mr. Rice had built only one $300,000 sewer in the Far East, that he was a free lance engineer who was taking "anything I could get in an engineering way." After he had been bossing "the biggest job in the country" for three years, Chief Engineer Rice wrote a new feature into the specifications for Queens sewers. After this specification was inserted, sewer assessments soared. Taxpayers grumbled, politicians muttered about graft, but nothing was done until the past Autumn when Lawyer Henry H. Klein, representing a group of Queens taxpayers, charged that...
...aviation progress and the interests (governmental) of international good will. In his own writings last week he pointed out the risks of flying over lonely Central American mountains. Remarked dissenters: "How much more lonely are the wastes of the Pacific; jungles below the Equator; tropic waterways of the East over which he must fly if his portfolio of Ambassador of Good Will is permanent." Grumblers wondered if interest accruing to the national welfare by his flights is worth the calamitous crash of principal which would accompany his death. Col. Lindbergh is the most cherished citizen since Theodore Roosevelt. Thought they...
...untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). Later his successful governorship of Misurata in Italian Tripoli won him his title: "Count di Misurata." Finally...
...longer German but lies in the wedge of Polish territory which was driven through Prussia to the Baltic by the Treaty of Versailles. With his own province thus a knife in the back of his fatherland, Old Paul von Hindenburg has begun to display marked sympathy, of late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness at a joint meeting of the German and Prussian cabinets, called to decide whether the Reich would extend...
...from the Texas Aggies. Hunt scored a touchdown three minutes after the game began and stopped a punch on the jaw from Weinstock, Western Maryland tackle, just before it ended. Weinstock was ejected from the game. Between these Eastern mishaps the West scored another touchdown and a safety, the East one touchdown. Score...