Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rare indeed was the Congressman who failed to take notice of last week's Michigan returns, and when the Republican nominee was elected many a Republican and many a Democrat quaked miserably. The significance of the Michigan election was that it was the first victory of a candidate east of the Rocky Mountains who campaigned openly for old Dr. Francis E. Townsend's plan for $200-a-month pensions for all good citizens over 60 (TIME, Nov. 4 et ante). Hundreds of Congressmen could foresee the ominous days next autumn when they would have to stand...
...Pontine Marshes, which he has drained and in which last week he opened on schedule another new little city, roared: "This is a day of Italian faith in this people's rights-a day of strong, inflexible faith in the destiny of the Fatherland! The war in East Africa is a war of civilization, a war which our people feel is a thing of their own. It is a war of the poor, a war of the proletariat against egotism and hypocrisy, against crooked Europe...
...March sponsors of the hardworking, ascetic-living Japanese put him down for meetings in Ohio, Indiana. Michigan and the Southwest, promised Colgate-Rochester Theological Seminary that in mid-April Dr. Kagawa would deliver its annual Rauschenbusch Lectures. After that the East and Canada were to have him until June, when he planned to sail for Europe and the World Sunday School Convention at Oslo...
...Pixy," If Miss Hayes had been born to a Cincinnati soap tycoon and finished at Farmington, she would probably have turned out to be one of those rare girls who for two or three seasons reign supreme at all the best college proms in the East, not because of good looks or a reputation for cuddlesomeness but because of unmistakable social charm...
...East 40th, New York City. We try to show each little utility The lack of charm and utter futility Of being bad, and how to be good And stay on the path of rectitude. But if on that road they run amuck, We'll ride them down with the big Mack...