Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being carried for some 18 hr. in an automobile, he was kept with eyes taped in a room which he judged by its musty smell to be a cellar. He never saw the two, possibly three, men who guarded him. Returning, they left him on a side-street in East Denver...
...East, When Princeton beat Columbia 35 to 24 last week, it became nearly certain that the Eastern Intercollegiate League championship would be decided by a play-off between Princeton and Yale, which last week completed its schedule by beating Cornell, 46 to 22. There have been five play-offs since the league was formed in 1902; Princeton has been in all of them. Last year an underrated Princeton team thrashed Columbia for the title. Experts have not underrated Coach Fritz Crisler's long lean forwards, Ken Fairman and John Seibert, this season. They are the high scorers...
...mind the only trouble is that the Western banks would need far more scrip than the Eastern ones since they are in so much worse condition. That would mean the transference of a great deal of cash from the East to the West, with a consequent weakening of the East. That is precisely what the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has been doing: it is merely an organization to take money from the stronger and wealthier parts of the country and transfer it to the weak South and West...
...moneychangers have fled from the temples, leaving official notices plastered to the front gates. Mounting uneasiness among individual and corporate depositors led to runs upon and closures of middlewestern banks, and to such a strain upon other parts of the banking system, especially in the-East, that similar protective measures became universally necessary. The superficiality of this explanation makes it peculiarly suitable for promulgation by bankers and a subsidized press. But to go just one step beyond this "lack of confidence" is to discover the utter incompetence and frequent dishonesty which have graced the laissez-faire operation of the American...