Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plump and pink Queen Wilhelmina, whose nose grew red as she went sleigh-riding in Switzerland last week, pronounced a solemn Speech from the Throne before she left The Hague. Mindful of her Dutch East Indies, in which live 60,000,000 of Her Majesty's 69,000,000 subjects, she gave them a new and more dignified name: Netherlands India...
...Governor Smith's stanchest supporters. He was a friend of Woodrow Wilson, is a friend of Franklin Roosevelt, organized the aggressive Democratic Union. In Garrison, N. Y. he has a country place where he sometimes plows with two oxen. In Manhattan, where he owns a house in the East Thirties, he steers clear of Tammany Hall. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (hobby, art collecting) and of Princeton University (religion, Presbyterian). His tall, thin figure draped in a loosely cut suit has been seen on many a public platform, from which he has issued dignified...
Capt. James A. Mollison, the Scotsman who flew the North Atlantic "uphill" (east-to-west) last year, flew from Lympne to Brazil in 3 days...
Said Archeologist James Henry Breasted, 67, as he sailed with Mrs. Breasted to inspect twelve units of Chicago's Oriental Institute diggers in the Near East: "It makes you feel utterly insignificant to dig and find that those people were so concerned over things that mattered so much to them. . . . And to come across all their tweedle-de-dums and tweedle-de-dees. . . . Given time, others will laugh at our tweedle-de-dees...
...encamped in Potomac Park, the President is ready. Under a careful scheme and picked leaders he organizes them into a National Reconstruction Corps, on the Federal payroll. As labor battalions on public works they reclaim land in the West, construct power dams in the Midwest, build highways in the East. Army discipline jacks up the workers' morale. Family allowances deducted from their wages care for their wives and children. So successful is N. R. C. that its principles eventually alter the whole character of U. S. organized labor...