Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pages' newspaper, angry Senator McAdoo got the paper suppressed. Another young lady with whom he was often seen was Lyla, daughter of Senator Townsend of Delaware. Social Washington will not be surprised if the junior Senator from California marries some young lady from the East. Last week, Senator McAdoo, in Los Angeles for a change, said: "Mrs. McAdoo correctly stated the reason for the separation. ... I deeply regret it and devoutly wish that it could have been averted...
...Running East, the strike virus spread panic in Minneapolis when 6,000 drivers climbed down off their trucks and began agitating a city-wide strike. Leaping the Mississippi River the infection struck Wisconsin, where 2,000 plumbing fixture workers in the model factory town of Kohler paraded with flags and pictures of President Roosevelt, demanded more pay, shorter hours, union recognition. Swinging South, strike trouble enveloped Houston, Tex., when a stevedore strike cost the lives of three Negroes...
...citizens of North Brookfield Mass staged a homecoming celebration for two native sons," Cornelius McGillicuddy ( Connie Mack") (born in East Brookfield) and George Michael Cohan (born in Providence, R. I.). Said Baseball Manager McGillicuddy, after the local semiprofessional team beat his Philadelphia Athletics 9-5 : "Nothing would please me better than to spend the rest of the summer here?the way my team is going." Said Actor Cohan: "To show I'm a typical New Englander I'm going to have apple pie for breakfast...
...piano-like keyboard. The "Three Musicians'' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594) regaled Elizabethans with harsh, screechy fiddling on rebecs. Milton and Pepys praised the pennywhistle notes of the fipple. Persians were plucking lutes before Attila ravaged Gaul. Crusaders brought dulcimers back to Europe with them from the East...
...Pennsylvania a much-needed subsidy of $1,188,000. Last fortnight Pitt's Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman touched off a battery of liberal protests by dismissing History Professor Ralph E. Turner, longtime loud and active liberal (TIME, July 16). By last week the smoke of battle had drifted East to Harrisburg and up the nostrils of that old liberal warhorse, Governor Gifford Pinchot. Cried he: "If the Mellons want a school to teach their ideas, then let them support it. The Commonwealth cannot...