Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kidneys congested, spleen enlarged, liver degenerated, genitalia hemorrhagic. Two other people in the vicinity have died with the same symptoms since June 1, and the panicky Capital immediately implored district and public health officials for advice on how to avoid a devastating disease which is new in the East...
Tune Detective Sigmund Spaeth last week became the possessor of a new job and title when executives of Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., convening in French Lick, Ind., announced his appointment as dean of the Wurlitzer School of Music. The school has 100 studios in the East, teaches 25,000 students, mainly of high-school age, how to play Wurlitzer instruments. About half study the accordion. Next favorite is the saxophone. Students start out on a simple course costing about $1.25 a week, including use of the instrument. Well-advertised Dean Spaeth will have charge of all schools, plans to tour them...
Compeer Forbes, who is also a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, did not relinquish his interest in Japanese affairs with his Ambassadorship. In 1935 he went back to Japan as head of the American Economic Mission to the Far East, whose report on Japanese industry acted powerfully to dispel the popular notion that Japan's booming foreign trade was made possible by hideously sweated labor. One of the members of the Forbes mission, President Roosevelt's Georgia neighbor, Cason Callaway, followed it by helping to promote the agreement concluded last winter...
...shone more than 150 miles away. This low saffron brightness ascended steadily during the eclipse. At the centre it went all around to about 10° above the horizon, above that changing gradually to a dark blue. After totality the shadow was seen in the high haze to the east for several minutes...
...Journal (p.m..), those newspapers have taken more than one unpopular but righteous stand. They were against the Ku Klux Klan during its heyday in Texas in the early 19205. They bucked demagogic Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing at the risk of losing readers. Announced he: "The Dallas News and the Dallas Journal, believing that...