Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every winter when there are youngsters in the President's family the First Lady gives a holiday party for her children at the White House. Such parties, with dancing in the big East Room and refreshments in the State dining room, are always the No. 1 social events of the Christmas-New Year's week for Washington's young blades and merry maidens. The President is generally on hand to beam benignly upon the offspring of Administration bigwigs as they frisk around in tails and trains at the scene of their parents' highest social triumph...
Carl Lomen, who had a quarter million reindeer in Alaska, solved their problem by contracting to deliver 3,000 head to the Kittigazuit Peninsula, just east of the Mackenzie Delta. Andy Bahr solved Carl Lomen's problem by agreeing to lead the drive. On Dec. 16, 1929 after months of preparation and a reconnoitering trip by airplane, he set out from Naboktoolik, small Eskimo village in western Alaska, with three Laplanders, six Eskimos, a medical attendant, a geographer, 39 sleds piled with supplies and 3,000 reindeer. His goal lay 1,200 miles away over desolate mountains and across...
Married. Frances Heenan ("Peaches") Browning, 24, relict of Manhattan Realtor Edward W. Browning; and Bernard J. Hynes, 36, Denver theatre manager; in East Chester, N. Y. Fortnight ago she won dower rights of $5,000 a year from the estate of her late husband, in whose will she was not mentioned...
...recount is to be official was undecided tonight. Neither Playfair nor Gibbs could be reached last night although the former was reported to be in Cambridge. Efforts to locate Gundlach, the retiring football captain, at his home in Houghton, Michigan, disclosed that he was on a train bound east. A sufficient number of the Student Council had not returned from their vacations to hand down an opinion...
...provide $500,000 for schools of dentistry and pharmacy at Louisiana State. With other bills Boss Long grabbed power to: 1) appoint sheriffs' deputies; 2) cripple New Orleans finances by banning municipal liquor taxes; 3) lay a sweeping tax on manufacturers; 4) take over the government of East Baton Rouge Parish, anti-Long stronghold containing the State capital, as a first step in making it his own "little District of Columbia...