Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertained for his granddaughter in 1843. Guests arrived in taxis, slipped on masks as soon as anxious Secret Service men had scanned their faces at the entrance. Unmasked but brilliant in the red and gold of a Rumanian peasant, Mrs. Roosevelt greeted each guest at the door of the East Room. After balloting for most original and clever costumes, there were songs, skits, supper?all, like the highjinks at the Gridiron dinner, strictly "off the record...
...women & children perished when the General Slocum burned and sank in New York's East River. For that excursion tragedy. William H. Van Shaick, the Slocum's captain, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Not until last week did the U. S. Government again take criminal action in the New York district against a marine officer following a marine disaster. Then a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan completed three months of investigation by voting seven indictments in connection with the Morro Castle fire...
...counterpart of a Gentile diocese. Half of the Church's 110 Stakes are in Utah, the largest ones being in Salt Lake City which has 56,000 Mormons. Idaho and California have Stakes. San Francisco got its first one last fortnight. But until last week no state east of Colorado had enough Mormons for a Stake, not even New York where Joseph Smith first saw visions, received from on high his plates of gold and formed in Fayette his first group of followers. Before it gained its present 2,000 followers, New York Mormonism was guided...
...will explain the Japanese attitude on the naval ratio question and will compare it to the American Viewpoint as the has seen it during his residence in this country. This is one of several goodwill speeches which Yamada is making at his own expenses at various colleges in the East...
...players, the most spectacular personage in professional football is a beefy, sandy-haired Irishman named Timothy James Mara who owns the New York Giants. Before he bought his team, Tim Mara had never seen a football game. A onetime newsboy, theatre usher and racetrack bookie from Manhattan's East Side, he bought a franchise in the National League for $500 in 1925, the year before Charles C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle invaded New York with Red Grange and an "outlaw" league. By preserving his New York franchise during a feud with Pyle, Mara saved the organization which...