Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jail because I just cannot control the actions of my queen bees." Last week the Senate relieved Apiarist Glass by voting queen bees out of the AAAmendments. "To the Garbage Can." His 10,000 acres of Virginia orchards make Senator Harry Flood Byrd the biggest apple-grower east of the Mississippi. As such he uprose last week to lead an attack on the proposal which would permit minimum price-fixing on certain foodstuffs. "As a producer of food," cried Pomologist Byrd. "I am firmly convinced that much more harm than good will result from the attempt to fix prices, those...
...discharged by flying an airship around St. Paul's Cathedral (1908), achieving one of the first airplane crashes (1910), pushing and plodding ahead in the china and exporting businesses and writing regular letters not only to the Times but to "26 newspapers in England, India and the Far East...
...East Hampton, L. I. Stuyvesant Fish, 14, nephew of Stuyvesant Fish (see above), paddled an inflated rubber mattress out to sea, brought ashore a drowning plumber. Learning from the plumber that his companion was also drowning, young Fish, with a 15-year-old friend and his father, Sydney Webster Fish, rowed out and rescued the clerk of the East Hampton Board of Education...
Fortune On Manhattan's East Side, a rumor of an uncle who had died six years ago in South Africa leaving a $17,000,000 fortune burst on the tenement home of Abraham Starr, 58, impecunious Polish-Jewish ironworker, his wife Leah, his seven grown children and brood of grandchildren. The facts were that a Montreal lawyer had seen in the hands of a stranger a Polish newspaper listing the will of one Harry Koslack or Kozack who had bequeathed at least $1,000,000, maybe $6,000,000, to his sister who had married a man named Stareselsky...
Because, if the U. S. won, its chance against England would depend largely on the newest, homeliest and youngest member of the team, interest in last week's round was largely concentrated on shambling, freckled, redhaired, 20-year-old Donald Budge of Oakland. Calif. When he went East for the first time last summer and put Bryan Grant out of the National Singles Championship. Budge was asked whether he hoped to make the Davis Cup team. Said he: "I'd be lucky to get on the Canary Island team. ... I'd rather play basketball than tennis anyway...