Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...folk arts. Our best hopes for the future he among the folk arts according to my mind. Of course you can claim that I am a middle-westerner and therefore, haven't an aesthetic, mind. Nevertheless, we westerners represent the true American spirit better than you in the East since you are so much in contact with the influences exerted on American by foreign countries...
...lawyers: stocky General Counsel Raymond S. Pruitt; Lyndol L. Young, who grew up with Cord in Los Angeles, hunted squirrels with him on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, graduated from the University of Southern California and was for a time U. S. District Attorney. Mr. Cord brought him East last autumn...
Other aristocratic records were ready to fall. One afternoon William Pinckley, stalwart (6 ft.-2 in.) deputy marshal, rode up Fifth Avenue in a taxi and descended before a supersmart apartment house at No. 2 East 70th St. He ascended to the seventh floor and announced he had a warrant to serve on Joseph Wright Harriman, Esq. Two starched trained nurses fell upon him. Five minutes later Mr. Pinckley was riding down Fifth Avenue to tell his superior that Mr. Harriman would die if arrested...
...Coal Association year and a half ago to place all sales in the hands of regional agencies, set up Appalachian Coals, Inc. He quickly persuaded 137 independent operators controlling three-fourths of all production in the Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee fields and one-eighth of all production east of the Mississippi, to subscribe for Appalachian Coals stock and to let Appalachian Coals sell their entire output. Besides stabilizing prices and unifying all sales promotion, Appalachian was designed to stamp out competitive practices that have hamstrung the industry for a decade...
Last month Author Linklater stood for Parliament as Scottish Nationalist candidate in East Fife, Scotland. His Juan in America, whose rogue's progress in the U. S. contained many an amorous interlude, so offended Scotch Presbyterian morals that Candidate Linklater polled only 1 ,000 of 30,000 votes cast...