Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...families in Salt River Valley, 25 were U. S. citizens by birth, that they legally owned about 150 acres and leased 300 acres more, that all the others were laborers. Wentworth Gurney, British consul, followed and went into a conference with Daljitsingh Sadhari and Ralmat Ali Khan. Protests flashed East and West and overseas...
...meeting at Geneva ... no more speaks for the Jews of America, let alone the Jews of the world, than does any haphazard roomful of oratory on East 86th Street speak for the German people. No more alarming and dangerous enunciations could have been concocted than those reporting that a 'Super-Government of Judaism' was in process of formation. . . . Nonparticipating are the Zionists . . . and a score of other leading [Jewish] constituencies...
...gasoline, a Department of Commerce inspector claimed his plane was overloaded by 2,000 lb., revoked his license, ordered his plane grounded. Incensed, Dorbandt climbed back into the plane, shouted: "You will never see me again!" Taking off with 2½-hr. fuel supply, he headed east into the fog over Prince William Sound. His friends, recalling the airplane suicide last year of a Jacksonville, Fla. widow (TIME, Dec. 4), gave him up for dead. Two days later Flyer Dorbandt suddenly returned to Anchorage, was promptly clapped into jail, was released next day under bond...
There must be many thirty-eights on that subway train flashing by. In ones and twos and threes. From Hartford, Conn., Philadelphia, Pa., and Okmulgee, Okla. And from Roxbury, East Boston and Revere. Come to leap into the meat-chopper. Come to wear their young lives away on Andromache and Karl Heinrich. Come to strut before Brattle brats and grovel before Deans. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to sublimate their young instincts on Soldiers Field and the River Charles. Come to write feeble pish for the Lampoon and pseudo-esoteric banalities...
...means chiefly a 100,000-acre patch of sandy land in East Texas where geologists, oil promoters, wild-cat speculators rushed by the thousands in October 1930 to plant a forest of derricks almost overnight. Despite everything the Federal Government could do to curb its lawless elements, East Texas has persistently produced more than its Federal quota. In that hottest spot on the oil map, "hot oil" has been a fighting word for years. Last week, the Texas Railroad Commission was still impotent to stop "hot oil." This week the State of Texas, led by Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, will...