Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been necessary. But many states are virtually bankrupt, and the funds now being dispensed by the National Government for the rehabilitation of other parts of the country come largely from the pocket-books of the taxpayers and wage-earners of Massachusetts and the other states of the Industrial East...
...Japanese attack, that, in fact, the Soviet armies will wipe up Manchuria with the Japs and throw their mangled remains into the sea; in addition to this, the Russians have given out specific estimates of the number of troops and airplanes which they have in the Far East, thus violating that essential point of military strategy, secrecy. All this bellicose public shouting by the Kremlin tough boys shows, I think, a certain pathological state of fear, a sort of whistling in the dark psychology. If the Soviets were as cocksure as they claim to be, they would not be spending...
...Bobby Manziel, sparring partner of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, drifted into the rich East Texas oil fields. He had $1.80 in his pocket. He promoted prizefights between oil field roustabouts for two months. Then with $700 from Jack Dempsey he started drilling a well. Soon he owned a major interest in ten. He gave Jack Dempsey a half interest in a lease in Gladewater. When he struck oil last autumn he summoned his partner to Gladewater. The townspeople celebrated by staging a parade...
Victory Well No. 1 gushed merrily on until last week when the U. S. Government got after Messrs. Dempsey and Manziel, claiming that they had produced more than their allotted quantity of oil. Said Oilman Manziel: "The independents are catching hell in East Texas but here's two that can take...
...Sherman, Tex., Federal Judge Randolph Bryant ruled that the oil code could not be applied to non-signers or to solely intrastate operators. Announcing that the Government would appeal, Charles I. Francis, special Assistant U. S. Attorney General and the Department of the Interior's representative in the East Texas fields, declared: "As far as the Federal Government is concerned oil regulation is wrecked...