Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Beck flew from Warsaw to talk this over last week with the Foreign Minister of Latvia, brilliant young Vilhelms Munters, who emerged as a leading small-power statesman when he recently chair-manned the League Advisory Committee on the Far East. En route to Latvia, Colonel Beck created a great Baltic stir by becoming the first Polish Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling...
...tabloid speculation over when where or whether Howard Hughes would wed Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, off again was Corrigan, his crate loaded with 320 gallons of gasoline, apparently headed for home to get his nickel back. But instead of heading West, the blind nose of his old ship aimed East, picked up the Lindbergh trail. Year before he had applied for permission to attempt an ocean night, but the Bureau of Air Commerce cracking down on stunt flying, refused...
...patient proved more than young Dr. Joseph Martin Swindt could bear. Like many a conscientious general practitioner, he believed he had made a faulty diagnosis. He never wanted to be a doctor, anyhow. He wanted to be a writer. Sombrely, Dr. Martin got into a bus at Chino, Calif., east of Los Angeles, traveled 500 miles to a seashore inn north of San Francisco. And there, before poisoning himself, he wrote a long "thesis on death" to his wife and two young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when it was discovered last week. Excerpt: "Surely there...
...work of the late, great Glenn O. Coleman, most famed Long Beach native, was exhibited by the Long Beach Dads' Club, which hoped to raise enough money by public subscription to buy a Coleman for the public library. At the other end of the Island at socialite East Hampton, in the handsome Guild Hall and the landscaped gardens around it, young, prolific Wheeler Williams exhibited 85 pieces of sculpture, smooth executions of conventional subjects that ranged from a pipe-playing Pan to a bust of Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow...
...Crepehangers have been routed out by optimism in the market places of the industrial East, and the country is started back on the highroad to good times. . . . Some of our friends . . . may think we have had an overdose of proximity with the famous Roosevelt personality. It is fine to be able to report that the President is in great fettle, hale and hearty, imbued with confidence, cheerful and relaxed, enjoying life and his big job to the fullest. We aver that our opinions are based upon broad observations. . . . But we can't deny that we are also influenced...