Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instantaneous shift last week from Jeffersonian history to the Mohammedan present, Dictator Mussolini received the homage of an assemblage of tribesmen led by Mohammed Abd-el-Gheder who cried: "All peoples will declare that your visit to Libya has bound the East to the West and has united Islam and Italy! Allah, through you, is restoring peace and pros perity to mankind." Off in a motorcade of 60 cars whirled Mussolini & Balbo, the ten-day program including major Mohammedan homage at the Arch of Triumph* newly erected at the halfway point on the motor road, then opening of the annual...
...Francisco and other East Bay towns, the earthquake broke windows, toppled chimneys. So many startled residents telephoned newspapers and police stations that the exchanges were jammed and calls were blocked as long as 15 minutes. Inspectors scurried out on the new Bay bridges to make sure nothing had been jarred loose. Seismologists estimated that the shock was about half as strong as the catastrophic quake of 1906. Dr. Albert Newlin of Santa Clara University said that slippage had occurred along the Hayward Fault, which runs nearly 50 mi. southward from...
...promising venture, the Conant Scholarships. President Hutchins of Chicago makes his contribution in the proposed "shock-absorber" institution of the four-year senior high school-junior college combination, after which those really fitted for higher education would be permitted to acquire it. Starting with the small colleges of the East, a movement is now on to stiffen the requirements for admission. Throughout the West there is the inclination toward a return to discipline and an abandonment of the "cafeteria" plan of education established by President Eliot. America has the choice of giving up mere mass-production in education or suffering...
...bringing warm weather to the coastal States. Quick thaws in this region contributed something to the Ohio floods. Another flood factor was the migration of the Rockies boundary into the Pacific Ocean. This allowed low-pressure centres to swing all the way down the western U. S. before moving east. These centres thus picked up moist tropical air around the Gulf of Mexico, then carried it northeast and deposited the water in the flood valleys...
Same year (1927) Reporter Rogers received the Pulitzer Prize for the ousting of Federal Judge George W. English of East St. Louis. Four years later Rogers rescued Dr. Isaac D. Kelley from mysterious St. Louis kidnappers. All St. Louis wondered about the Kelley case. Reporter Rogers solved it early in 1934 when a "pipeline" produced news that implicated Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench and others (TIME...