Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least some disturbance in Radio-station K. H. J. which, as an associated Columbia station was broadcasting your wonderful program. While others promptly hastened from the premises I hastily began dialing for some report upon the quake. I found I could pick up a number of stations northwest-and east of my location. But I did not pick up any south of me & so radio enabled me, in a very amateurish way, to determine that whatever disturbance had taken place was probably south of Pasadena and (because of the interruption to Los Angeles stations) might have affected Los Angeles...
Basketball in this section is equal in style and skill, if not superior, to that played in any other section of the U. S. As a sport it closely rivals football in interest and crowd attendance -such is not true in the East or on the Pacific Coast...
...sons of Eli and Nassan, however, hold a decided advantage over the Harvardians, for they are not only nearer to New York, the fashion center of the East, but also have had no supposedly humorous publicity campaigns to emphasize the acme of vulgarity in their respective institutions. But the local Bearers of the Braces all agree that Harvard men need only one thing to regain their lost leadership in collegiate styles, and that is the courage to wear the latest fashions when they first come...
Events of recent weeks testify to the earth faults-earthquakes in Japan and Cuba a fortnight ago, in Chile the prior week, in Alaska concurrently. Argentina and Germany, apparently thrown off bal ance, also quaked. Mt. Vesuvius in Italy, Mt. Krakatoa in the East Indies, seethe...
...stood since 1893. The post carries no diplomatic rank, the Delegate simply keeping in touch with U. S. Catholics, interpreting Church law, speaking for the Pope sometimes. Member of an aristocratic Roman family, Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi was sent to Washington in 1922 after having held similar positions in the East Indies and Japan for six years. In May 1927 he felt obliged to state that the Vatican had no interest in Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for President. In 1929, the Apostolic Delegate called on President Hoover. Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi, 60, is tall, pink and scholarly. He lived quietly...