Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State to pass such a law. Year ago, when the first General Assembly of Commissions on Interstate Co-operation was held, New Jersey and Colorado were its only members. Last week the second General Assembly found 14 states with such Commissions, all of them, except Colorado and Nebraska, from east of the Mississippi. In addition, twelve other states which have not yet formally adopted the plan have standing committees on interstate co-operation in one or both houses of their legislatures. Seven other interested states sent delegates to last week's convention...
...East Hartford, Conn, last week a two-year-old Vought Corsair biplane scuttled along a runway, picked up its tail and leaped aloft after an amazingly short take-off run of 50 yd. The pilot whipped the plane into a vertical bank, streaked back at 225 m.p.h. The roar of the motor, one newshawk said afterward, was the deepest note he had ever heard from an aircraft engine. This engine was Pratt & Whitney's new 1830 Wasp, described by its makers as the most powerful ever developed for standard service in the U. S. Before the flight demonstration another...
Evelyn Preston, who succeeded Mrs. Hays as president last December, was born 37 years ago in Colorado Springs. She went East to school, studied at Barnard and the University of Wisconsin, found herself interested in labor problems after the War. In 1924 she went to England, joined the Labor Party. Now married to Roger N. Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union, she lives with him and her two children by a previous marriage at Oakland, N. J., raises chrysanthemums, plays bridge, has six Scottish terrier pups...
...very close contest between the two outstanding college rugby teams of the East is expected at 3:15 o'clock today when Harvard, undefeated in three games, and Princeton, with a record of five straight victories and no defeats, clash at Soldier's Field...
...some that no clear-thinking modern woman would venture to have her name on its rolls. In a few years more the sight of a beribbonned clipper-ship sailing through the Mayflower lobby in Washington will rank as a rarity with the Folger Library and the piano in the East Room. The task of upholding patriotism will then fall to the lower elements in the population. There is always the Massachusetts legislature...