Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back to his capital last week went Haile Selassie, no Conquering Lion of Judah. Along the dusty streets the tin-roofed shops of Armenian, Greek and East Indian traders were boarded up, almost all the houses of any pretension deserted. A watchful Italian plane circled lazily above...
...time," said Dr. Boas, "that the bulk of the body as expressed by stature and weight is easily modified by ... favorable conditions of life. In Europe there has been a gradual increase of bulk of body between 1850 and 1914. Adult immigrants who came to America from South and East Europe have not taken part in this general increase. . . . Their children, however, born in America, or who came here young, have participated in the general increase of stature of our native population. With this go hand in hand appreciable differences in bodily form. Just in the same...
...East Room of the White House funeral services were held over the body of the President's Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. Then President & Mrs. Roosevelt accompanied their late friend on a special train to Fall River, Mass., where he was buried, hurried back to Washington...
That police had finally nailed John Torrio on an ordinary revenue law violation seemed thoroughly in keeping with that gangster's fabulous career. A small-time tough who operated an East Side poolroom in Manhattan before the War, Torrio rose to be a rugged member of Brooklyn's notorious Five Points Gang. His fame spread to James ("Big Jim") Colosimo, then Chicago's No. 1 brothel operator. He hired Torrio as head triggerman shortly after the War. Torrio's marksmanship and disarming personality made him a Colosimo favorite. To help him in his work, Torrio imported...
During the bottom of Depression, forums sprouted spontaneously throughout the nation. The current issue of School Life, organ of Commissioner Studebaker's Office of Education, reports that more than 1,000 forums are still functioning, concentrated chiefly in the East and Midwest. Favorite discussion topic, said School Life, is International Affairs, with Economic Recovery a close second...