Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Congress continued to mumble & bumble over farm relief plans which cannot pass this session, big life insurance companies of the East last week held out helping hands to the debt-stricken West. From its headquarters at Newark, N. J. the largest single farm land creditor in the U. S., Prudential Insurance Co., announced it was suspending for an indefinite period foreclosures on its $209,000,000 worth of mortgages on 37,000 farms in the U. S. and Canada. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. (Newark) followed suit by declaring it had ordered its Iowa agents to cease trying...
...John D. Rockefellers paid $125,000 for the League's report through their Bureau of Social Hygiene, Inc. Since he hails from the U. S., Chief League Investigator Bascom Johnson was happy to report that U. S. white slaves, who were very numerous in the Far East 20 years ago, have almost disappeared, having been "rescued" and crowded out by White Russian refugees...
...Middle and Far East there is, the Commission found, a notable absence of that "vulgarity" common in brothels of the West.* Most Asiatics prefer to hire women of their own race. Solemnly the Commission postulates and advises that: 1) The principal factor in promotion of the international traffic in women in the East is the brothel. 2) The most effective remedy is abolition of the licensed brothel. 3) The most serious problem, so far as Occidental victims are concerned, is provided by the Russian women refugees in Manchuria and Northern China. 4) A large majority of Chinese prostitutes enter...
Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, 72, had visited the Post office on Champa Street for the last time a week before. Troubled by pain in his left ear, he went home to his ornate white stone house on East Tenth Avenue. To the house came doctors, then nurses. Few days later an oxygen tent was brought. That night came a Catholic priest. Before dawn Publisher Bonfils, baptized on his deathbed, succumbed to encephalitis (brain inflammation), result of the ear infection...
...eight-metre boats and another star, made of mahogany, the Snapper which he sold when light cedar hulls were coming into fashion. With his Ace, built in 1924, he won the International Championship in 1925, the Bacardi Cup in 1927, innumerable minor trophies which, in his house at East Williston (L. I.) make a respectable glitter beside the huge silvery bonfire of the cups he inherited when his father died a year ago. Three years ago he was on the afterguard of the America's Cup contender Whirlwind, built by his friend and star boat rival Landon Thorne. Adrian...