Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennessee gave Repealists their first bad scare when it turned in a wet majority of only 9,000 out of nearly 250,000 votes. Memphis and Nashville were barely able to overcome the Dry strength of Republican moonshining East Tennessee. There was some talk of a recount...
...Federal agents tracked down and arrested one Percy Michael Fitzgerald, ex-convict and burglar, known as the "Dice Box Kid." His confession led to the arrest of three other men and two women. The police also found the place where Banker Luer had been hidden on a farm between East St. Louis and Madison. Shiny new screws in the floor of the tool shed aroused their suspicion. They ripped up planks, discovered beneath them a pit from which a narrow tunnel led into a dark cave-the cave where Luer was kept...
...empty country and so did Australia. I should like to have seen a great English gesture-and I know it is rank heresy-in presenting to Japan that part of Australia which we cannot colonize ourselves. I believe that would change the whole atmosphere of the East...
Each capitalist group would be a chartered company, like the famed East India Co. which wrung so much wealth from Indian natives between the reigns of Charles II and William IV. To make the proposition more attractive Premier Lyons is willing to let the half-million square miles on hundred-year leases exempting the chartered companies from Australian duties, land taxes and income tax for that period...
...Vagabond's spirit slid down the scale like a planist's finger on a descending glissando. It sunk back into reality on the Esplanade where the crowd was chattering and chewing. Infinitely far up over in the east, a little star burned and its light pierced the haze and noise like a burnished steel point. The Vagabond stole away softly and followed...