Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Leader Bridges flew East to address a series of mass meetings in Atlantic ports, try to persuade longshoremen to defy their officers, join the striking seamen. Anticipating the return from South America of apparently the only one who could settle the strike, Oakland and Berkeley, Calif.'s City Councils addressed to President Roosevelt a plea for "prompt and vigorous action...
...East Wall...
...subject depicted on the east wall is taken from the Norse legend, the "Ragnarok," the Doom of the Gods. The story is a very old one, taken from the "Elder Edda," as Icelandic tale of the Middle Ages...
Both walls are symbolic of the constructive and destructive forces of society. The north wall represents the struggle between creative science and matrial greed. The east wall depicts the struggle between creative culture and the brutal impulses of man. To make the allegory more vivid, the artist has used many modern war accessories...
There was one moment, at New York's Polo Grounds last week, when it looked as if the New York Giants, champions of the East for three years, might win their most important football game of the year. That was in the first quarter when they stopped the Boston Redskins one foot short of a touchdown. Except for another goal-line stand, this time when the Redskins needed four yards to score, the rest of the game, roughest and grimmest of the season, was Boston's all the way. Ankle-deep mud slowed down the Giants' best...