Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris the trial of assorted spies for Germany and Russia who were betrayed to the Sûreté Nationale by their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange, N. J. (TIME, March 26, 1934, et seq.), buzzed on last week. Two star female prisoners continued to rely for acquittal on daily exhibitions in court of babies born to them in jail...
...single day, knocking it down with the flat of his hand for a gavel. Altogether he has sold over $1,250,000,000 worth of other people's land and buildings. Some 20 years ago he bought himself a sandspit -most of it underwater-at the east end of Coney Island, paying more than $1,000,000 for it. There he developed "Manhattan Beach" which during Depression was valued at $10,000,000 on the tax lists. He expects it to be worth $100,000,000 when inherited by his grandchildren. But that is only one of his many...
...proposing," said Capitalist Day, "this development to give the middle class people of Brooklyn the same advantages that are enjoyed by the wealthy in the new apartments along the East River in Manhattan...
...policy of choosing students from states not yet widely represented at Harvard is as important as the financial provisions of the program. Although the East has always furnished by far the largest number of Harvard's undergraduates, the University can not afford to shut its eyes to that larger and increasingly important part of the country. President Conant's scholarship plan promises to overcome the practical difficulties in the way of the Western student mentally, though not financially, equipped to study at Harvard...
...Death Files East" is a thriller which improves as it progresses. Hollywood machinery creaks dismally and obviously in the beginning, but as passengers drop dead in the aisles of a transcontinental air liner and the race against time seems more and more hopeless, it is possible to arouse interest. The solution has twist much as an O. Henry short story and left us with a satisfied feeling. The Oriental, whose name we didn't get, was much too charming to be an international thief. The valuable papers were delivered to Washington into the safe hands of the Patent Office...