Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago the battle of the mannequins was waged most politely. Professional models, from their headquarters on East Wacker Drive, sent an appeal to the Gold Coast to refrain from this ruinous competition on the grounds of sportsmanship. Touched, many debutantes promised that they would...
...wind speeds scores of miles up-by observing the drifting trails of meteors. Without benefit of balloonists Dr. Compton and others learned that cosmic ray intensity varies with latitude, and Dr. T. H. Johnson of the Bartol Foundation demonstrated that more rays come from the west than from the east. Hinting his disillusionment with manned balloons, Dr. Compton has begun a mountaintop and sounding-balloon survey. Dr. Millikan, in the current Physical Review, has kind words to say for the Settle-Fordney flight. In his article he reproduces a strip of film from the automatic electroscope aboard the Settle-Fordney...
...East Los Angeles young Mr. Harriman, who, like his father before him, now chairmans the Union Pacific's board, stepped into his company's newest train, sat down in a Pullman named "E. H. Harriman." Also aboard were U. P.'s President Carl Raymond Gray, and many an other bigwig. This was no ordinary train; it was the railroad's answer to aviation-a sleek streak of canary-yellow speed...
...daylight gallery" of the English Book Shop in Manhattan went on exhibition a group of etchings never before shown east of California. Californians remember John Kelly as an advertising man who gave up his job eight years ago, went to Honolulu, won honorable mention at last year's International Exhibit in Los Angeles. A shy Irishman, Kelly and his sculptress wife live year round in Hawaii, prefer natives to tourists. He dislikes exhibiting, does so only when his wife argues him into...
...bearded and slightly deaf at 90, Dr. Wenner is the oldest U. S. minister in point of service. In 1867, a Yale graduate and a Union Theological seminarian, he began preaching in a blacksmith shop on 14th Street. Soon he founded Christ Church on 19th Street on the far East Side. His congregation grew to 500, then dwindled with an influx of Jews and Italians. With 120 members, Christ Church today shares its building with an Italian congregation. Pastor Wenner preaches on occasion, edits Der Sonntagsgast (The Sunday Visitor) in German which he had to learn years ago. A pioneer...