Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connors' mob fights Steve Brodie's gang for possession of the fire hydrant--an especially humorous scene since we have as a background to this massacre a delightful picture of good-natured Swipes throwing a brick through a window, upsetting a kerosene lamp. Crowds throng the banks of the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge, small boats loaded with inebriated gamblers drift in a semi-circle...
...matter of fact, doctors, experts and specialists have seized upon this situation with all the impersonal, detached enthusiasm characteristic of the scientific mind, congregating in St. Louis as to a great field laboratory. When a Post-Dispatch reporter asked a woman from the East, distinguished in research, her aim in coming to the city, she replied: "To improve my mind." Meanwhile. Mrs. Smith of Oregon or New Mexico or Virginia, reads of all these famous people from New York, the Federal agencies, Rochester, Minn., etc., etc., and it seems to her like the gathering of shock troops to combat...
...permanent meteorologi- cal station at Elmira and because a large number of novices earned primary soaring certificates. But the tedious days of inactivity, punctuated by windy speech-making on the part of local boosters, made crack glider pilots wonder why Elmira should be the only soaring site in the East. One who wondered was Richard Chichester du Pont. Last week he did something about it. Richard du Pont, 24, blond and clean-cut, is the younger son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Like his brother Felix...
...Corporation is as yet undecided as to what will be done with the yellow frame house in which George H. Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Moral Philosophy resided during his last years. Situated in the south-east corner of the Yard, it has been vacant since the family of the late professor moved during the summer months...
Somewhere south of the West Indies and east of Florida lies that editorial goldmine known as the Cuban Situation. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt, Cabot Lodge, and the forces of American journalism won the island for us, it has presented a really pleasant problem, one which was colorful enough to make good copy, and small enough to afford a thrill without a menace. Before and after the turn of the century a rousing fight centered about the question of Imperialism, Dollar Diplomacy, and such, lapsing into obscurity only for a time, as the economic conquest of the sugar resources was completed...