Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light for which Germans waited most anxiously was some dawning indication from President von Hindenburg of his attitude toward last week's massacre. Troubled more than usual by his prostate, the 86-year-old Reichsprasident was at his country estate at Neudeck in East Prussia attended by physicians so numerous that they were called a "major medical council." There were rumors that Old Paul was dead, promptly denied by his State Secretary Dr. Otto Meissner. Forty-eight hours after the shooting began the Hitler Government released two telegrams calculated to set all doubts at rest...
...days later Gilbert Baker, 24, of East Orange, took off in his glider from a field near Basking Ridge, lost a wing, plunged 100 ft. to his death...
Forty-five years ago three good Democratic wards in East Boston were bossed by a saloon-keeping politician named Patrick J. Kennedy. To "P. J." was born a son, Joseph, who went to Harvard and became a baseball player. After graduation in 1912, Joe turned down a job in the big leagues to try his hand in business. He and a friend bought a sightseeing bus for $1,200. The friend drove while Joe barked. They not only paid for their investment, but in the course of three seasons Joe cleared about $5,000. On the strength of that...
Wheeonk, blared the bugle of Dr. Walter Baker. The band struck up the "Sidewalks of New York." Cornell-Rockefeller Hospitals' entry, Bronx Cheer (by Simple Simon, out of the East River), was coming into the ring. The white-trousered, white-skirted crowd pressed closer, gabbled excitedly. Was it true that the Accident Ward had given the Obstetrical Clinic's Lucky Miss (by Chance, out of Wedlock) a shot of morphine? The band struck up "La Marseillaise." Pourquoi Pas, entered by a young French nurse, was coming in. Over by the administration building two doctor-bookies gathered...
...Justice had failed to approve the industry's plan for a $10,000,000 oil purchasing pool among 29 companies and Congress had gone home without giving him a law to control and punish companies which produced oil in excess of their quotas. Now he cajoled 38 East Texas refiners representing 87% of the companies of that area into a gasoline stabilization agreement. The refiners promised to abide by his gasoline allocations, to report all transactions, and, above all, to buy no "hot oil." The major producers who also control retail outlets agreed to buy up surplus gasoline from...