Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late years, mysterious Banker Butler has expanded into other phases of the lumber business and, according to local gossip, mellowed. He is still a recluse, living in a mansion overlooking Puget Sound, taking solitary trips East and to California with his wife. And he still conducts his banking business, and his political operations, through close-mouthed Lieutenants. But ever since the death of his only son after a tonsillectomy in 1918, Banker Butler, whom few dare call "Bill" to his face, has been gradually loosening the strings on his money bags. With three others, he built a fine new hospital...
...that he is "a bit of a hero to the boys of the country," at his public swagger, but there could be no sneering at the flying records that he has won in the stiffest competition. His speed racing began in earnest in 1930 when he first broke the East-West transcontinental record...
...Glavis was once more in the spotlight. It was darkly hinted that revelations would be more scandalous than anything since Teapot Dome. Attorney General Cummings and Secretary Ickes conferred with the President. A Federal board was hastily announced to issue ''tenders" without which not a drop of East Texas oil could be accepted for shipment in interstate commerce. And. as the Washington marching and countermarching continued, newshawks were informed last week that the Government was about to launch its latest & greatest drive against the recalcitrant producers...
Skirmishes were going on in nearly every big city east of the Mississippi. Along the seaboard it had settled down to a pitched battle between Standard Oil of New Jersey and the independents, with every other oil company helplessly drawn in. Standard was determined to keep its prices ½? above the independents and the independents were equally determined to maintain a 1½? differential...
Died. Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd, 30, desperado; of gunshot wounds inflicted by Federal agents led by Melvin Purvis, Dillinger hero near East Liverpool, Ohio. Fortnight ago, after police learned he was one of three thugs responsible for the Union Station massacre in Kansas City last year, Floyd was flushed out of an Iowa farm (TIME, Oct. 22), badly wounded, chased through a half-dozen states to his death...