Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Governor Landon left Topeka fortnight ago, his journalist-advisers were considerably worried because the preliminary drafts of the speeches he was to deliver contained so little of the political zip and zing that make helpful headlines. The G.O.P. nominee argued that the East did not know him, that he was going to introduce himself first by a discussion of general principles and not deal with specific campaign issues until later. His West Middlesex speech was, in fact, so fundamental that the Democratic high command did not bother to controvert its generalities. At Chautauqua Governor Landon discussed Education...
...Just at this time," they declared in a pastoral letter read in all German churches on Sunday, "Communism and Bolshevism attempt with devilish purposefulness and pertinacity to strike from the East [Russia] and from the West [Spain] against Germany, the heart of Europe, and thereby to take it into their fatal pincers . . . German solidarity must not be impaired by religious worry . . . Communism will not be struck in its deepest roots by military force but through the resurrection-in Jesus Christ-of Europe in general and our Fatherland in particular. . . . During the last few months within Germany's own border...
...street as II Duce came driving along. He pulled up sharply, got out of his car, picked up the bambino and carried it indoors to its mother, saying: "You must be more careful. Babies are the dearest things in the world." "Because my husband is serving in East Africa, Excellency, I have to work so much harder I have scarcely any time," timidly explained the woman...
Sixteen years ago Sears, Roebuck & Co., one of the two great merchandising organizations built on the agrarian economy of the U. S., undertook a major invasion of the industrialized East. Eastern headquarters were established at Philadelphia and to this new satrapy, Julius Rosenwald, Chicago's great mail order magnate, sent his own son, quiet, hardworking, philanthropic Lessing Julius Rosenwald. The great Julius died, and four years ago Son Lessing became board chairman of the firm. Even then he did not return to Chicago. Once a week or oftener he taxis thither by air to confer with Sears' President...
...zero to ten goals in ratio to their ability. To enter the Open, a team's four members must have a total handicap of 21 goals or better. In the whole world, only that minute corner of Long Island bounded on the north by the Sound, on the east by Jericho, on the south by Westbury and on the west by Port Washington has ever been able to furnish seven such teams at the same time...