Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western courts develop long passers, elaborate strategies. Midwest and Pacific Coast play a hard-hitting game. Referees there are free-&-easy in interpreting the rule against blocking, thus favoring the offense. In New England the blocking rule is severely enforced. To a lesser degree the same is true in East, South and Northwest. Even without hope of recognized national supremacy, each league last week had a fair idea of what teams would be in the top flight for the final play-offs next month. Midwest. Whether or not they offer the best basketball in the U. S., Midwest games stir...
...second to score the eleven points which won the game. Also like Notre Dame, City College has in Nat Holman a remarkable coach. In 15 years Holman's teams at C. C. N. Y. have won 173 games, lost 41. Born and bred on Manhattan's East Side, Nat Holman learned basketball where many another crack Jewish player started, in a settlement-house gymnasium. While studying at C. C. N. Y. he did not play on the college team, but turned professional, signed in 1920 with a team called "The Original Celtics." Holman played with the Celtics...
When Mr. Roosevelt first began to devaluate the dollar a great howl was immediately raised by newspapers, particularly in the East, and it appeared as if public opinion was against the President. Since that time, however, the storm of protest has subsided as rapidly as it started. The obvious inference is that the public were not antagonistic to the President at all, and that sentiment was misrepresented by the newspapers, and by the wealthy class who seized upon the devaluation policy as an excuse for attacking the whole Recovery programme. Precisely the same tactics are being used by the same...
...selfishly in love with a young engineer (Fredric March). Her association with a petty crook (George Raft) and his mistress causes her to be a bigger and better person. Raft steals a handbag, goes to jail, kills a guard escaping from Manhattan's Welfare Island, swims across the East River, rescues his mistress from a reformatory and commits suicide by jumping out of a hotelroom window. These activities suggest to the heroine of All of Me that the least she can do for her engineer is to follow him to Colorado where all the running water is in dams...
Twenty-nine years ago a swarthy little Armenian urchin named Mike Devlet sold foreign language newspapers in the cheap restaurants of Manhattan's East Side. He discovered that although he did not know how to pronounce their names customers would pay 10? to hear him try. Then, after a brief career delivering eggs, he went to high school. His teachers were not impressed with his Latin. So Michael Jeremiah Devlet went to work as an errand boy in a bond house. At 16 he was earning $14 a week; at 17, only $5. But he had become a runner...