Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economy. Had these features been in the Democratic platform of 1932, that party would not have carried one state in the Union." In aiming at the Democrats in a Republican primary, Candidate Reed assumed that he was also shooting at Gifford Pinchot, whose exact political position lies camouflaged somewhere East of Democracy and West of the G. O. P. Nobody in Pennsylvania has ever succeeded in orienting the Pinchots. They have been borderland cases for years. Governor Pinchot's old Pennsylvanian family comes from Milford, across the Delaware from Port Jervis, N. Y. For generations their interests have lain...
...Since 1919 many a German has left the Saar. Many a Saar Frenchman, realizing that under League protection he pays extremely low taxes, may well vote to stay with the League. So may many a Catholic, Socialist or Communist who now fears Nazi Germany as much as France. From East and West into the Saar pour propaganda and terrorists, German and French. Last week Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels, charged with the job of getting the Saar back for Germany at any cost, began scouring Germany for oldtime Saar residents eligible to vote in next year...
...they were definitely promised a chance to develop either an Arab Confederation or a single Arab Kingdom of their own. Realists well knew that the Allies would not like the idea of a new nation, one third as big as all Europe, blocking the way to India and the East, but the Arabs believed the Wartime promise. So did the mysterious Colonel Lawrence until his disgust at the duplicity of politicians caused him to flee theatrically from the world...
Manhattan Melodrama (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens spectacularly with the General Slocum disaster out of which are tossed two orphaned boys into Manhattan's East Side. One is studious while the other shoots craps. Years later the student has become district attorney, the crapshooter a top-money gambler. If Jim Wade (William Powell) is straight as a die, Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) is crooked as his own dice. Gallagher's sleek mistress (Myrna Loy) loves him honestly, leaves him when he refuses to make her an honest woman. In Harlem's Cotton Club she falls in love with...
...discovered'' as an obscure sculptress by Rudolph Valentino. Given the Madonna role in Ben Hur, she was told three hours later she was "not the type." For years she played an endless monotony of roles portraying seductive sinuosity. A stranger to Broadway, she has never been east of the Mississippi...