Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empty chair with its lighting effect, recommended to all Golden Rule church or community dinners, was evolved by Charles Vernon Vickrey, onetime Near East Relief worker who in 1923 invented International Golden Rule Sunday, expanded it in 1929 to Golden Rule Week, formed the Golden Rule Foundation to promote...
...before Litvinoff and Russia could be attended to there was a concert in the East Room. Naval and military aides (in full-dress uniform because as Mrs. Roosevelt said "they look better that way and it doesn't cost anything to put it on") ushered the guests to the spindling gold chairs, set 20 rows deep. On the platform was the famed gold piano. Mrs. Roosevelt introduced the musicians who had played for her in Albany. They were the Morgan Sisters, a harp-violin-piano combination, who came out dressed in crinoline to play a 50-minute program which...
Most U. S. citizens think of the Dutch in terms of a bonneted little creature who is the scourge of dirt. The rest of the world-particularly the British-think of the Dutch in terms of stubbornness. It was the stubborn Dutch East Indian rubber planters who knocked Britain's Stevenson plan of rubber control into a hat so cocked that all rubber planters have been prostrate ever since. The harder the British bore down on production the faster the Dutchmen planted. But if the Dutch are stubborn the British are dogged and together they produce...
...Royal Scots Fusiliers in France in 1916, Descendant Churchill took a soldier's interest in war strategy. His books on the War (The World Crisis, The Eastern Front), written in galloping style, give a clearer picture of the fighting, especially of the War in the East, than most of the defensive memoirs of retired Generals...
...balloon was released, Commander Settle sat confidently atop the gondola and threw off ballast. A 55 m.p.h. wind swept the bag southeast across Ohio toward Washington. Near East Liverpool (Ohio) they were up 12,500 ft.; near Pittsburgh, up 49,000. At last, they scratched over 58,000 ft., began to descend, and while an all-night search for them was begun by Navy planes and land parties, landed near Bridgeton, N. J. They had not broken the Russian record, but they had sent the first U. S. balloon into the stratosphere...