Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College, oldest of Land Grant institutions, claims Alumnus Paul Armstrong, General Manager of the California Fruit Growers Exchange. He entered the Exchange direct from Michigan State in 1915 and not from the University of Michigan as stated on p. 66 of TIME, Dec. 2. ... GLEN 0. STEWART Alumni Secretary East Lansing, Mich...
Michael Strauss ("Mike") Jacobs is a fat, pink-shirted promoter who started his business career selling newspapers on a tough and highly competitive corner in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Later he became a peanut & popcorn peddler on Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning the boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid...
...most popular drama is derived from the tried & true formula: Boy Meets Girl-Boy Loses Girl-Boy Gets Girl. No one knows better than Messrs. Mandel, Hammerstein and Romberg how exasperating it is to try to find a fresh method of stating this old theme. Last time out together (East Wind, 1931), they solved the problem by having their boy meet their girl in French Indo-China. This year their situation, for musicomedy, was novel enough: a Viennese psychiatrist marries a woman who is in love with another man, cherishes his sorrow so blindly that he fails...
Dead End. Sidney Kingsley's slice of East Side Manhattan life exhibited on Norman Bel Geddes' realistic...
...venture turned out better than that of his fellow Standard Oilman, Henry Morrison Flagler, who insisted on building his Class I railroad over 114 miles of deep water to reach shallow water at Key West. Flagler's Florida East Coast is in the hands of the courts, and since the last hurricane (TIME, Sept. 16) it has been seriously suggested that its over-water section beyond the Florida mainland would make a better motor road than a railroad.* But the Rogers' Virginian was so solvent last week that a banking group headed by Brown Harriman & Co. easily marketed...