Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis for Congressional representation. Said New York's Congressman O'Connor: "It's a wonder to me that any self-respecting alien stays in this country." But the assault of the South and the West provoked a counter attack from the North and the East. Up rose Representative George Holden Tinkham, Massachusetts Republican, to offer another amendment providing that States which disfranchised citizens should have their Congressional representation reduced. This amendment was aimed directly at the Southern States where only whites cast the ballots but where Negroes are counted in determining how many voices in Congress...
...standing alone at the wheel, shouted for aid in bringing his boat alongside. Capt. Louis Rounds, relaxing nearby, gave him a hand. The tastefully disguised young man was the Honeymooning Hero. His bride hid in the cabin below. Capt. Rounds told the story two days later and newsgatherers sped east...
...June week when the U. S. public is most college-conscious, Cornell stands unique in other respects besides kudos. On its hill at the tip of the biggest of western New York's Finger Lakes, it stands midway geographically, culturally, financially, between the allegedly "effete" private institutions of the East and the allegedly "crude"' State-supported institutions of the Midwest and West. Its students come from both sides of the Alleghenies. It is composed of colleges supported privately and by the State. It is a co-educational "man's college." It began with the soil and evolved an international tradition...
...Harry Dean bought the schooner Pedro Gorino in Norway. For a while he traded, making money, saving it. Then one day he met a certain Portuguese official and was surprised to hear him say, after a little palaver: "I am offering you the vast territory of Portuguese East Africa including the city of Lorenco Marques for ?50,000 sterling." The territory was cheap because it stood between English and Boers, who were having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons of his own race in the U. S. He would install power...
...York City, Frank ("Daredevil Jack") Latkowsk' did a Jackknife dive from Brooklyn Bridge into the East River (138 ft.). He sprained his thumb...