Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controversy, correction and information on TIME subjects ranging from Oklahoma's Chief Justice to Prize Lies, from Andrew Jackson's pipe-smoking wife to the Loch Ness Monster. To obtain a copy of the Letter Page Supplement, write to I. Van Meter, editorial secretary of TIME, 135 East 42nd Street, New York City.-ED. President's Voice...
...last October one of Washington's oldest merchants who has done business on the same spot for 28 years proudly issued a press release. The spot: intersection of Pennsylvania and East Executive Avenues, northeast corner of the White House grounds. The merchant: Nicholas Stephanos Vasilakos, proprietor of a peanut stand. The Press release, written in pencil on an empty popcorn bag: "Was certainly a great pleasure for me to wait on a new customer today at noon. The First Lady of the Land stopped by my stand and purchased a bag of fresh roasted popcorn for pastime while...
...orchestra played "East Side. West Side." "Everybody sing.'' urged the master of ceremonies. Silence. John A. Mullen, chairman of the speakers' bureau, read from a letter: "For my own protection and to save embarrassment I have cut out all dinners. . . . Alfred E. Smith." Hisses. Boos...
...Inside East Chicago's First National Bank one afternoon last week terrified customers and employes were lined up by two Indiana desperadoes, John Dillinger and John Hamilton. Outside were eight policemen. John Hamilton took time to scoop up $20,376. Then, using Vice President Walter Spencer as a shield, the gunmen battled their way to an accomplice's car, fled in a hail of bullets. On the sidewalk lay the riddled body of William P. O'Malley, fourth police victim of the Dillinger gang in three months' banditry...
Peculiarly Bolshevik was a scandal which broke in the Moscow Press last week. Peasants in a dozen villages of the Soviet Far East were reported to have broken collective contracts signed not by them but for them by the local Soviets. The contracts bound the peasants to go out into the woods in sub-zero weather and stay there in lumber camps until they had cut specified quotas of wood...