Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CONNOLLY East Orange...
...operate the mills, the managers scoured the East Tennessee mountain country for strikebreakers whom they drove to the plants in busses and trucks under armed guards. The strikers, many of them also back-countrymen, attempted to block the highways, break up the convoys. Trees were felled across the road. In one case a "loyal worker" injured three strikers when ordered by Guardsmen to drive his car full tilt through a blockading group. Adjutant General W. C. Boyd in charge of militia at Elizabethton was arrested on a charge of "aiding and abetting an attempt to commit murder," preferred...
...rained till the Churchill Downs track looked like a brown and olive swamp. The favorite flower of the East was Blue Larkspur, but Man O' War's gelded son Clyde Van Dusen won the race. The other Clyde Van Dusen, his trainer, nearly wept when he saw him come in. His owner, Broom Manufacturer Herbert P. Gardner, did not watch him because he was afraid of the excitement. His jockey, Linus ("Pony") McAtee, who won the 1927 Derby on Whiskery, said "I knew it from the start." More than 60,000 people watched the race, All of them...
None of the six U. S. communities with more than one million population (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia) had more than two typhoid deaths per 100,000. Healthiest section of the U. S. from the typhoid aspect is New England; sickliest, the east south-central region...
Yale has a great dual meet team. Pennsylvania, with the strongest aggregation in the East, barely nosed out the Elis three weeks ago, but Princeton was snowed under on Saturday by an avalanche of record Eli times and distances. It is impossible to compare he summaries of the Yale-Princeton and Harvard Dartmouth meets without seeing that the Crimson must outdo itself to destroy Yale's paper edge...